Although a self-stabilizing system that suffers from a transient fault is guaranteed to converge to a legitimate state after a finite number of steps, the convergence can be slow ...
The goal is to build a general framework for ad hoc applications over large networks using semantics and complex systems analysis. The first part deals with semantics because appl...
The increased complexity of performance-sensitive software systems leads to increased use of automated adaptation policies in lieu of manual performance tuning. Composition of ada...
Jin Heo, Dan Henriksson, Xue Liu, Tarek F. Abdelza...
Abstract: We present a formal framework to talk and reason about dependable systems. The framework is based on three distinct classes of (system specification) properties we call s...
Zinaida Benenson, Felix C. Freiling, Thorsten Holz...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...