Currently a wide range of different adaptive and intelligent system solutions are being proposed for use in self-managing or autonomic networks. However, there are few means by wh...
Abstract. This paper analyzes the threat of distributed attacks by developing a two-sided multiplayer model of security in which attackers aim to deny service and defenders strateg...
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...
Context-awareness has become a distinguishing feature of Ubiquitous systems. Contrary to desktop and web applications, Ubiquitous applications gather environmental context and pro...
Many conceptual modeling and system design methodologies provide tools to help system designers to model the real world. No guidelines exist, however, for determining the relation...