Many information systems are used in a problem solving context. Examples are travel planning systems, catalogs in electronic commerce, or agenda planning systems. They can be made...
Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Loic Samson, Boi Fa...
Software systems are known to suffer from outages due to transient errors. Recently, the phenomenon of “software aging”, one in which the state of the software system degrades...
Kishor S. Trivedi, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Kate...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Abstract--Embedded systems contain a wide variety of processors. Economical and technological factors favor systems made of a combination of diverse but programmable processors. So...
—Developmental robotics is also known as epigenetic robotics. We propose in this paper that there is one substantial difference between developmental robotics and epigenetic robo...