In this paper, we address an issue of design in online rating systems: how many items should be elicited from the ratings provider. Recommender and reputation systems have traditi...
The abstractions and protocol mechanisms that form the basis for inter-agent communications can significantly impact the overall design and effectiveness of Mobile Agent systems. W...
Mudumbai Ranganathan, Marc Bednarek, Doug Montgome...
The ‘engineering’ and ‘adaptive’ approaches to system production are distinguished. It is argued that producing reliable self-organised software systems (SOSS) will necessa...
In recent technology nodes, reliability is considered a part of the standard design flow at all levels of embedded system design. While techniques that use only low-level models at...
Michael A. Kochte, Christian G. Zoellin, Rafal Bar...
RFID tags are being used in many diverse applications in increasingly large numbers. These capabilities of these tags span from very dumb passive tags to smart active tags, with t...