As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...
We introduce a simple liveness property for shared object implementations that is gracefully degrading depending on the degree of synchrony in each run. This property, called adapt...
In this paper, we present a formal model, named PobSAM (Policy-based Self-Adaptive Model), for modeling self-adaptive systems. In this model, policies are used as a mechanism to d...
Narges Khakpour, Saeed Jalili, Carolyn L. Talcott,...
When developing systems based on COTS, components need to be adapted in most of the occasions to work under certain conditions which were not initially predicted by their develope...
Many multicast overlay networks maintain application-specific performance goals by dynamically adapting the overlay structure when the monitored performance becomes inadequate. Thi...