This paper presents an attempt of using intelligent agents for testing and repairing a distributed system, whose elements may or may not have embedded BIST (Built-In Self-Test) an...
The process of analyzing and using information is often collaborative in nature especially given the broad and multi-disciplinary tasks that we must support today. Collaboration r...
A wireless sensor network is a special kind of ad-hoc network with distributed sensing and processing capability that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as environm...
Marcos Augusto M. Vieira, Luiz Filipe M. Vieira, L...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a serious threat for the Internet. DoS attacks can consume memory, CPU, and network resources and damage or shut down the operation of the reso...
Many mathematical models have been proposed to evaluate the execution performance of an application with and without checkpointing in the presence of failures. They assume that th...