— We consider the problem of providing absolute QoS guarantees to multiple classes of users of an OBS network in terms of the end-to-end burst loss. We employ Markov decision pro...
A top-down approach for workflow design is proposed in the framework of Petri net theory. Simple but powerful refinement rules are proposed that guarantee soundness of the resultin...
Piotr Chrzastowski-Wachtel, Boualem Benatallah, Ra...
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
The “social dilemma” is a problem inherent in forming and maintaining cooperation among selfish individuals, and is of fundamental importance in the biological and social sci...
We introduce four measures for the change of coalitions in social networks. The first one measures the change of the agents in the network over time, The second one measures the ...
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre, Serena Villa...