—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...
It seems common sense that “policy matters” in setting up e-government interoperability, mainly because collaboration should be guided by dedicated integration objectives and ...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
— This paper explores a process-oriented approach to complex systems design, using massive fine-grained concurrency, mobile channels and mobile processes. The complex systems st...
—We address cooperative caching in mobile ad hoc networks where information is exchanged in a peer-to-peer fashion among the network nodes. Our objective is to devise a fully-dis...
Marco Fiore, Francesco Mininni, Claudio Casetti, C...