We address the problem of the impossibility of implementing synchronous fault-tolerant service specifications in asynchronous distributed systems. We introduce a method for weaken...
Abstract— Graphical variant modeling refers to a novel approach to object-oriented modeling whereby a class overrides behavior inherited from a parent class by specifying variati...
Even as they enjoy impressive growth, one of the major challenges facing providers of online services is a high rate of customer turnover. It has adverse impacts on business perfo...
One of the upcoming challenges in embedded processing is to incorporate an increasing amount of adaptivity in order to respond to the multifarious constraints induced by today’s...
Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique, Stephanie Kreutz, J...
Abstract. Cognition of technical systems, as the ability to perceive situations, to learn about favorable behavior, and to autonomously generate decisions, adds new attributes to s...
Sebastian Kain, Hao Ding, Frank Schiller, Olaf Stu...