Software agents are one of the building blocks of ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. Adaptation to changes in the execution context is necessary in order to provide cont...
Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) mostly work off-line, without any direct runtime interaction or coordination with the applications (and with other IDSs) that they a...
Joseph P. Loyall, Partha Pratim Pal, Richard E. Sc...
Design problems involve issues of stylistic preference and flexible standards of success; human designers often proceed by intuition and are unaware of following any strict rule-b...
: A crucial prerequisite to externalized adaptation is an understanding of how components are interconnected, or more particularly how and why they depend on one another. Such depe...
N. Badr, A. Taleb-Bendiab, Martin Randles, D. Reil...
By definition, a heavyweight network service requires a significant amount of computation to complete its task. Providing a heavyweight service is challenging for a number of reaso...