Performance tuning in modern database systems requires a lot of expertise, is very time consuming and often misdirected. Tuning attempts often lack a methodology that has a holist...
Manyversions of Unix provide facilities for user-levelpacket capture, making possible the use of general purpose workstations for network monitoring. Because network monitors run ...
This paper examines how methods inspired by biological processes can be applied to the design of large-scale environment-aware sensor networks. Our ultimate goal are systems conta...
In this paper, we suggest an integrated architecture that makes use of the objective-technical information provided by the designer and the subjectiveperceptual information supplie...
The ontogenetic development of living beings suggests the design of a new kind of multicellular automaton endowed with novel quasi-biological properties: self-repair and self-repli...