We present a framework that will enable scalable analysis and design of graceful degradation in distributed embedded systems. We define graceful degradation in terms of utility. A...
Abstract. Autonomous learning systems of significant complexity often consist of several interacting modules or agents. These modules collaborate to produce a system which, when vi...
This paper attempts to de ne an object-oriented database system. It describes the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an objectoriented databas...
In the span of only a few years, the Internet has experienced an astronomical increase in the use of specialized content delivery systems, such as content delivery networks and pe...
Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn...
Evolving software-intensive systems from one consistent state to another is a challenging activity due to the intricate inter-dependencies among the components. In this paper, we ...