As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...
We study the fifo and causal multicast problem, two group-communication abstractions that deliver messages in an order consistent with their context. With fifo multicast, the co...
Abstract. A team of mobile sensors can be used for coverage of targets in different environments. The dynamic nature of such an application requires the team of agents to adjust th...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) is an accepted paradigm in safety-critical systems, like the production automation. Agents control the underlying machinery they are representing and int...