Abstract. The increasing proliferation of computational devices has introduced the need for applications to run on multiple platforms in different physical environments. Providing ...
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
Autonomousmobile robots need to detect potential failures reliably and react appropriately. Dueto uncertainties about the robots and their environment,it is extremelydifficult to ...
High assurance security is di cult to achieve in distributed computer systems and databases because of their complexity, non-determinism and inherent heterogeneity. The practical ...
— Industry is more and more interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adapt...