In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...
Metaheuristics have often been shown to be effective for difficult combinatorial optimization problems. The reason for that, however, remains unclear. A framework for a theory of ...
Abstract. Web services constitute a dynamic field of research about technologies of the Internet. WS-BPEL 2.0, is in the way for becoming a standard for defining Web services orche...
The importance of critical systems has been widely recognized and several efforts are devoted to integrate dependability requirements in their development process. Such efforts re...
Yudistira Asnar, Paolo Giorgini, Fabio Massacci, N...
Two operations commute if executing them serially in either order results in the same change of state. In a system in which commands may be issued simultaneously by different use...
Greg Dennis, Robert Seater, Derek Rayside, Daniel ...