A trend in software development is to assemble a system from a number of components. These may be either available commercially off-the-shelf, or by the use of network-based resou...
— Fault-tolerance is an important system metric for many operating environments, from automotive to space exploration. The conventional technique for improving system reliability...
John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Miodrag Potk...
While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss ...
In the manufacturing domain, few new distributed systems are built ground-up; most contain wrapped legacy components. While the legacy components themselves are already well-teste...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...