Modularity is one of the most important properties of a software design, with significant impact on changeability and evolvability. However, a formalized and automated approach i...
Various intrusion tolerant certification authority (CA) systems have been recently proposed to provide attack resistant certificate update/query services. However, it is difficult...
The reliability of a large-scale storage system is influenced by a complex set of inter-dependent factors. This paper presents a comprehensive and extensible analytical framework ...
This paper proposes a framework for agent-based distributed machine learning and data mining based on (i) the exchange of meta-level descriptions of individual learning processes ...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...