Goals are often used to represent stakeholder’s objectives. The intentionality inherited by a goal drives stakeholders to pursuit the fulfillment of their goals either by themse...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizz...
In this paper, we present an intelligent and controllable ad hoc network using mobile robot routers in heterogeneous mobile environments. The goal of the mobile robots is to ensur...
Rabah Meraihi, Gwendal Le Grand, Samir Tohmé...
This paper presents a mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of component-based applications and its fault tolerance strategy. The mechanism, named generic connector, allows compos...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
State-of-the-art security mechanisms are often enforced in isolation from each other, which limits the kinds of policies that can be enforced in distributed and heterogeneous sett...