Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
The structural organization of biological systems is one of nature’s most fascinating aspects, but its origin and functional role is not yet fully understood. For instance, basi...
From a system's perspective as opposed to an individual agent perspective, MAS adaptation is now becoming an important topic, since it can help to obtain expected outcomes ...
The Web is rapidly becoming the platform through which many companies deliver services to businesses and individual customers. E-Services are typically delivered point-to-point; h...
Multimedia presentations comprise various media objects such as text, audio, image, and video that are delivered to users according to certain temporal relationships. In stored mul...