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IFIP
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Product Family Approach to Graceful Degradation
Design of gracefully degrading systems, where functionality is gradually reduced in the face of faults, has traditionally been a very difficult and error-prone task. General appro...
William Nace, Phil Koopman
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Valency for Adaptive Homeostatic Agents: Relating Evolution and Learning
This paper introduces a novel study on the sense of valency as a vital process for achieving adaptation in agents through evolution and developmental learning. Unlike previous stud...
Theodoros Damoulas, Ignasi Cos-Aguilera, Gillian M...
COCOON
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Spectrum Bidding in Wireless Networks and Related
In this paper, we study the spectrum assignment problem for wireless access networks. Opportunistic spectrum usage is a promising technology. However, it could suffer from the self...
Xiang-Yang Li, Ping Xu, ShaoJie Tang, Xiaowen Chu
DSN
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Experiences with formal specification of fault-tolerant file systems
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
Roxana Geambasu, Andrew Birrell, John MacCormick
EWCBR
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Understanding Dubious Future Problems
Abstract. Being able to predict the performance of a Case-Based Reasoning(CBR) system against a set of future problems would provide invaluable information for design and maintenan...
Oguz Mülâyim, Josep Lluís Arcos