Systems are increasingly expected to adapt themselves to changing requirements and environmental situations with minimum user interactions. A challenge for self-adaptation is the i...
: Function allocation, as a process used in the construction of dependable complex systems, is a significant aspect of the design and implementation of interactive systems. It invo...
Karsten Loer, Michael Hildebrandt, Michael D. Harr...
Business processes, the next-generation workflows, have attracted considerable research interest in the last 15 years. More recently, several XML-based languages have been propose...
There are two popular parallel programming paradigms available to high performance computing users such as engineering and physics professionals: message passing and distributed s...
Lorena B. C. Passos, Gerson H. Pfitscher, Tarcisio...
Agents are intended to interact in open systems where the knowledge about others (reputation) is incomplete and uncertain. Also, this knowledge about other agents is subjective si...