As we move to developing object-oriented programs, the complexity traditionally found in functions and procedures is moving to the connections among components. Different faults o...
— An autonomous robot system that is to act in a real-world environment is faced with the problem of having to deal with a high degree of both complexity as well as uncertainty. ...
While SOAP/XML is perceived as the appropriate interoperability level for web-services, companies compete to provide workflow-based tools for web-service integration. This paper p...
As a general framework, UNITY does not offer any specific facility for the design of distributed systems. For such systems, distribution aspects must be represented at a low level,...
Michel Charpentier, Mamoun Filali, Philippe Mauran...
Recent developments in integer-programming software systems have tremendously improved our ability to solve large-scale instances. We review the major algorithmic components of sta...