: Since its creation in 1990, World Wide Web has increased the popularity of Internet which becomes an important source of information or services for all people over the world. Th...
: Organization is a central concept in systems. In this paper an ant algorithm for detecting organizations is presented. In a discrete-time context, at each time-step, an organizat...
: An autonomic network must work unsupervised, therefore must be able to respond to unpredictable situations. The BIONETS project is working towards resilient network services that...
: The software industry is faced with the fast growing complexity of IT infrastructures. This makes manual administration increasingly difficult and appears to be the limiting fact...
: The increase in the creation and sharing of distributed multimedia content has led to the creation of new tools and methods to automatically and manually annotate content to assi...
Abstract: This paper targets the reactive autonomic system's self-monitoring of one of the most important nonfunctional properties, reliability. There are currently no adequat...
: Modern information systems are becoming more and more socio-technical systems, namely systems composed of human (social) agents and software (technical) systems operating togethe...
: Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are perm...
Aspect orientation is important not only at the programming-level but also at the modeling-level. We previously proposed an aspect-oriented modeling language called AspectM for ma...