While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Performance management (PM) is a key function of virtual organization (VO) management. A large set of PM indicators has been proposed and evaluated within the context of virtual br...
State-of-the-art middleware for component-based distributed applications requires openness to support a broad and varying range of services. It also requires powerful and maintaina...
Abstract. We present a logic-based framework to evaluate the resilience of computer networks in the face of incidents, i.e., attacks from malicious intruders as well as random faul...
Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this pape...