Policy refinement is meant to derive lower-level policies from higher-level ones so that these more specific policies are better suited for use in different execution environments...
Javier Rubio-Loyola, Joan Serrat, Marinos Charalam...
Software development organizations wanting to introduce usability practices into their defined software process have to undertake laborious efforts for that purpose, since, for the...
Assume that a franchise plans to open k branches in a city, so that the average distance from each residential block to the closest branch is minimized. This is an instance of the ...
Abstract. Combinatorial Auctions are an attractive application of intelligent agents; their applications are countless and are shown to provide good revenues. On the other hand, on...
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Alessio Guerri, M...
Dynamic provisioning systems change application capacity in order to use enough resources to accommodate current load. Rejuvenation systems detect/forecast software failures and te...
Raquel Vigolvino Lopes, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco ...