— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...
Even modern component architectures do not provide for easily manageable context-sensitive adaptability, a key requirement for ambient intelligence. The reason is that components a...
Modeling the dependencies between provided and required services within a software component is necessary for several reasons, such as automated component adaptation and architectu...
This paper presents a reactive programming and triggering framework for the coordination of a large number of distributed agents with shared knowledge. At the heart of this framewo...
The work proposes a hierarchical architecture for learning amic scenes at various levels of knowledge abstraction. The raw visual information is processed at different stages to g...