Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...
—In China, the number of online learners who attend formal education has quadrupled in the last 5 years to 8.2 millions until the end of 2008. How can online teachers build and u...
Xiaohong Tan, Carsten Ullrich, Yan Wang, Ruimin Sh...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
After a component based system is developed, it has to be deployed into a target environment. As the system becomes much larger and more complex and the environment becomes open an...
Ling Lan, Gang Huang, Liya Ma, Meng Wang, Hong Mei...