: Software agents are often employed in distributed environments to cope with the various dynamical dimensions of such systems. Furthermore, the paradigm of agent-oriented software...
Increasingly, computer software must adapt dynamically to changing conditions. The correctness of adaptation cannot be rigorously addressed without precisely specifying the require...
Ji Zhang, Zhinan Zhou, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philip K...
Mismatches in QoS (Quality of Service) often appears as a major but implicit hurdle to smooth component integration. This paper presents a solution to the above problem through pr...
Large classes of autonomic (self-managing, selfhealing) systems can be created by logically integrating simpler autonomic systems. The configuration method is widely used for such...
Sanjai Narain, Thanh Cheng, Brian A. Coan, Vikram ...
The various goals and requirements of a system are realized in software as fragments of code that are typically \interleaved" in that they may be woven together in the same c...