The management of policies in large-scale systems is complex because of the potentially large number of policies and administrators, as well as the diverse types of information th...
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Mor...
—Robotic middlewares increasingly allow the seamless integration of multiple heterogeneous robots into one distributed system. With the inclusion of ambient intelligence and perv...
The new generation of television viewers is currently being confronted and becoming acquainted with a series of technological developments in the realm of consumer electronics and...
Traditional database system architectures face a rapidly evolving operating environment, where millions of users store and access terabytes of data. In order to cope with increasi...
Emergence is a widespread notion in complex systems, artificial life and multi-agent systems. In this paper, we try to clarify a specific emergence feature suggested by John Holl...