There is wide agreement that architecture plays a prominent role in large, complex software systems. Selection of an appropriate architecture – one that matches the system requi...
Universidade de ´Evora’s Integrated Information System (SIIUE) aims at representing the entire universe of concepts useful for the management and day-to-day operation of the Or...
To support QoS guarantee and resource usage in heterogeneous access network environments more efficiently (UMTS, WIMAX, WLAN DVB-T, DVB-H), there is the challenge of automated con...
Performance guarantees can be given to tasks in an embedded system by ensuring that access to each shared resource is mediated by an appropriate scheduler. However, almost all pre...
System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...