This paper describes the use of Obstacle Analysis to identify anomaly handling requirements for a safety-critical, autonomous system. The software requirements for the system evolv...
Robyn R. Lutz, Ann Patterson-Hine, Stacy Nelson, C...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Abstract. In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in multi-agent systems’ research. Recent applications of MAS enforce the need o...
On Navy ships, technological developments enable crews to work more efficiently and effectively. However, in such complex, autonomous, and information-rich environments a competiti...
Estimating the rate of Web page updates helps in improving the Web crawler’s scheduling policy. But, most of the Web sources are autonomous and updated independently. Clients li...