: The specification of the dynamic behaviour of reactive distributed systems must exhibit the structures of control and has to imply explicitly the relevant aspects of the distribu...
Abstract—Network controllers (NCs) are devices that are capable of converting dynamic, spatially extended, and functionally specialized modules into a taskable goal-oriented grou...
Rachana Ashok Gupta, Ahmad A. Masoud, Mo-Yuen Chow
In stand-alone databases, the two functions of ordering the transaction commits and making the effects of transactions durable are generally performed in one action, namely in the...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Fernando Pedone
In this paper we propose a multi-agent system modeling language (MAS-ML) that extends UML (Unified Modeling Language) based on structural and dynamic properties presented in a conc...
— We study by computer simulation a population of individuals playing the prisoner’s dilemma game. Each player has an invariable strategy (cooperate or defect) but the network ...