— The aim of this paper is to investigate how stigmergic information allow each individual of a group of autonomous robots to take advantages from other individual behaviors. The...
Software testing can benefit from technologies that enable evolution toward increased engineering discipline. In current practice, software developers lack practical means to dete...
Mark G. Pleszkoch, Richard C. Linger, Alan R. Hevn...
In this paper, we present a formal model, named PobSAM (Policy-based Self-Adaptive Model), for modeling self-adaptive systems. In this model, policies are used as a mechanism to d...
Narges Khakpour, Saeed Jalili, Carolyn L. Talcott,...
A simple dynamic model of agent operation of an infrastructure system is presented. This system evolves over a long time scale by a daily increase in consumer demand that raises t...
Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Ian Dobson,...
Through clean-slate implementation of two storage optimizations--track-aligned extents and track-aligned RAIDs--this paper shows the values of independent validations. The experie...