In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
Fault-tolerant distributed systems based on fieldbuses may benefit to a great extent from the availabilityof semantically rich communication services,such as those provided by g...
We introduce PLC-Automata as a new class of automata which are tailored to deal with real-time properties of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). These devices are often used in...
In this paper, we present a modular co-synthesis framework called CHARMED that solves the problem of hardware-software co-synthesis of periodic, multi-mode, distributed, embedded ...