A pattern is a model or a template used to summarize and describe the behavior (or the trend) of a data having generally some recurrent events. Patterns have received a considerab...
Software systems today often run in malicious environments in which attacks or intrusions are quite common. This situation has brought security concerns into the development of so...
Early performance analysis based on Queueing Network Models (QNM) has been often proposed to support software designers during the software development process. These approaches a...
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been used as a design and validation tool in various production and business applications. DES can also be utilized for analyzing the product-m...
AI planning research is now maturing and nding practical application in the commercial, industrial, engineering and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid expansion in the last ...