In this paper, a feedback control strategy that achieves convergence of a multi-agent system to a desired formation configuration is proposed for both the cases of agents with sin...
In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...
This paper proposes a software architecture and a development process for engineering dependable and controllable self-organising (SO) systems. Our approach addresses dependabilit...
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, John S. Fitzgerald, A...
Traditionally shared data areas have been used to efficiently communicate between embedded system tasks, such as periodically executing control system tasks. Such implementations ...
Abstract. The heterogeneity nature of XML data creates the need for approximate query answering. In this paper, we present an XML system that cooperates with users to provide user-...