Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are currently widely used for the development of open, large-scale interoperable systems. In those sys...
Autonomic networks are able to monitor and control themselves without direct human intervention. The smallest unit of an autonomic network is the autonomic element (AE). This work...
Computational social choice is an interdisciplinary eld of study at the interface of social choice theory and computer science, with knowledge owing in either direction. On the o...
In this chapter, we present some of the biologically-inspired approaches, developed within the context of the European project BIONETS for enabling autonomic pervasive computing en...
: We discuss a group protocol which supports applications with group communication service when QoS supported by networks or required by applications is changed. An autonomic group...