Service-based Systems (SBS) have the advantage of composing distributed systems from various services provided by multiple providers transparently. In addition to functional correc...
Fault-tolerant distributed real-time systems are presently facing a lot of new challenges. Although many techniques provide effective masking of node failures on the architectural...
Aspect-oriented mechanisms have been widely exploited at the programming-level. Nevertheless, little has been achieved at the architectural level, and this despite the potential b...
—Reputation systems provide a promising way for building trust through social control in collaborative communities by harnessing the community knowledge in the form of feedback. ...
The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distribute...
Benedita Malheiro, Nicholas R. Jennings, Eugenio O...