An autonomic system is structured as a network of autonomic elements that collaborate to achieve the system’s purpose. This paper examines the potential benefit of using well-es...
David W. Bustard, Roy Sterritt, A. Taleb-Bendiab, ...
With the growing usage of the world-wide ICT networks, agent technologies and multiagent systems are attracting more and more attention, as they perform well in environments that a...
In Ubiquitous computing small embedded sensor and computing nodes are the main enabling technologies. System programming for such small embedded systems is a challenging task invol...
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...