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ICWS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Dynamic Approach toward QoS-Aware Service Workflow Composition
Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
SAGA
2005
Springer
16 years 9 days ago
Self-replication, Evolvability and Asynchronicity in Stochastic Worlds
We consider temporal aspects of self-replication and evolvability – in particular, the massively asynchronous parallel and distributed nature of living systems. Formal views of s...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
FM
1997
Springer
258views Formal Methods» more  FM 1997»
15 years 11 months ago
Consistent Graphical Specification of Distributed Systems
: The widely accepted possible benefits of formal methods on the one hand and their minor use compared to informal or graphical description techniques on the other hand have repeat...
Franz Huber, Bernhard Schätz, Geralf Einert
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Finding latent performance bugs in systems implementations
Robust distributed systems commonly employ high-level recovery mechanisms enabling the system to recover from a wide variety of problematic environmental conditions such as node f...
Charles Edwin Killian, Karthik Nagaraj, Salman Per...
IJCAI
1989
15 years 8 months ago
Integrating Knowledge-Based System and Neural Network Techniques for Robotic Skill Acquisition
This paper describes an approach to robotic control that is patterned after models of human skill acquisition. The intent is to develop robots capable of learning how to accomplis...
David Handelman, Stephen Lane, Jack Gelfand