Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...
This paper describes a group communication system called the timewheel group communication system that has been designed for a timed asynchronous distributed system model. The tim...
From a system's perspective as opposed to an individual agent perspective, MAS adaptation is now becoming an important topic, since it can help to obtain expected outcomes ...
The use of good random numbers is essential to the integrity of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious i...
Abstract. Software testing is an expensive and time-consuming activity; it is also error-prone due to human factors. But, it still is the most common effort used in the software in...