This paper introduces a formally specified design of a compositional generic agent model (GAM). This del abstracts from specific application domains; it provides a unified formal ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
A customer of high assurance software recently sponsored a software engineering experiment in which a small real-time software system was developed concurrently by two popular sof...
Abstract Mobile computing systems should be selfmanaged to simplify operation and maintenance plus meet user's expectation with respect to Quality of Service (QoS). When archi...
Scalability is widely recognized as an important software quality, but it is a quality that historically has lacked a consistent and systematic treatment. To address this problem,...
Leticia Duboc, Emmanuel Letier, David S. Rosenblum...