Search engines provide search results based on a large repository of pages downloaded by a web crawler from several servers. To provide best results, this repository must be kept ...
Software Configuration Management addresses roughly two areas, the first and older one concerns the storage of the entities produced during the software project; the second one con...
Abstract. This paper analyses the robustness of self-organizing (engineered) systems to perturbations (faults or environmental changes). It considers that a self-organizing system ...
In this paper we report some of the research endeavors we are embarking on as part of the Doctoral research of the first author. We have already completed an investigation of some...
Many of today's virtual environment applications, such as massively multi-player online games, involve a large and rapidly changing set of users. The server-based architectur...