This paper describes the deployment of residential broadband networks by relating two parallel but contrasting stories. Story 1 considers network providers' search for a kill...
Eliciting requirements for a proposed system inevitably involves the problem of handling undesirable information about customer’s needs, including inconsistency, vagueness, redun...
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...
Recommendationsfor implementationand evaluation of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can bene t from a broader theoretical foundation to support investigation, understanding a...
Stochastic process algebras have been proposed as compositional specification formalisms for performance models. In this paper, we describe a tool which aims at realising all bene...