Abstract-- Recent research on multi-agent systems has produced a plethora of decentralized controllers that implicitly assume various degrees of agent localization. However, many p...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Safeguarding practices for networked systems involves decisions in at least three areas: identification of welldefined security policies, selection of cost-effective defense strat...
This paper introduces an exact schedulability analysis for the optional computation model urider a specified failure hypothesis. From this analysis, we propose a solutionfor deter...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...