Predictability is crucial in critical applications and systems. Therefore, we examine sources of uncertainty for each of the four phases that span a project lifecycle, from initial...
The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
In this paper, an object-oriented unified optimization framework (UOF) for general problem optimization is proposed. Based on evolutionary algorithms, numerical deterministic meth...
Formal verification based on model checking provides a powerful technology to query qualitative models of dynamical systems. The application of model-checking approaches is hamper...
Pedro T. Monteiro, Delphine Ropers, Radu Mateescu,...
Modern distributed applications pose increasing demands for high availability, automatic management, and dynamic conguration of their software systems. This paper presents the ar...