We advocate an approach towards the characterisation of components where their qualifications are deduced systematically from a small set of elementary assumptions. Using the chara...
: This paper describes a new approach for the creation of an adaptive system able to selectively combine dynamic multidimensional information sources to perform state estimation. T...
Dynamic information collected as a software system executes can help software engineers perform some tasks on a system more effectively. To interpret the sizable amount of data ge...
— When a P2P system has millions of concurrently active peers, there is the risk that it could serve as a DDoS engine for attacks against a targeted host. In this paper we descri...
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...