This essay draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, phenomenological inquiry, and recent insights from the study of swarm intelligence and complex networks to ill...
Abstract. This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining predictable interactions between groups of agents in open environments when individual agents do not expose their bd...
Nardine Osman, David Robertson, Christopher Walton
Access control is an important protection mechanism for information systems. An access control matrix grants subjects privileges to objects. Today, access control matrices are sta...
Event based simulations are an important scientific application in many fields. With the rise of cluster computing, distributed event simulation optimization becomes an essential ...
We analyze the main motivations that lead to the present need for supporting continuous software evolution, and discuss some of the reasons for change requirements. Achieving softw...