Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
Abstract-The immune system is a complex biological system with a highly distributed, adaptive and selforganising nature. This paper presents an Artificial Immune System (AIS) that ...
Research can rarely be performed on large-scale, distributed systems at the level of thousands of workstations. In this paper, we describe the motivating constraints, design princ...
Membrane computing is a branch of molecular computing that aims to develop models and paradigms that are biologically motivated. It identifies an unconventional computing model, n...
Changing demands, software evolution, and bug fixes require the possibility to update applications as well as system software of embedded devices. Systems that perform updates of ...