Abstract. Today’s large-scale computing systems are deployed in open, changing and unpredictable environments. To operate reliably, such systems should be able to adapt to new ci...
Current peer-to-peer architectures are hardly resistant against unanticipated exceptions such as the failure of single peers. This can be justified by the absence of sophisticated...
any benefits. Most significantly, an abstract architectural model can provide a global perspective of the system and expose important system-level properties and integrity constrai...
David Garlan, Shang-Wen Cheng, An-Cheng Huang, Bra...
The use of handheld networked devices to access information systems by people moving around is spreading rapidly. Systems being used in this way typically face dynamic variation in...
Svein O. Hallsteinsen, Jacqueline Floch, Erlend St...
Components in a decentralised system are faced with uncertainty as how to best adapt to a changing environment to maintain or optimise system performance. How can individual compo...