In distributed simulations, such as multi-player distributed virtual environments (DVE), power consumption traditionally has not been a major design factor. However, emerging batt...
Weidong Shi, Kalyan S. Perumalla, Richard M. Fujim...
Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. Many applications need to be updated or extended with new characteristics during their lifecycle. Software evolution is character...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
While there has been much work on developing frameworks and models of norms and normative systems, consideration of the impact of norms on the practical reasoning of agents has at...