With the move to distributed, component based systems involving reuse of components and services, emergent, system-wide properties, including safety and security in particular, are...
—A predictive, multiple model control strategy is developed by extension of self-organizing map (SOM) local dynamic modeling of nonlinear autonomous systems to a control framewor...
—We propose an access control model that extends RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to take time and location into account, and use term rewriting systems to specify access control...
This article describes a mathematical framework for characterizing cooperativity in complex systems subject to evolutionary pressures. This framework uses three foundational compo...
: The theme of this issue of IJCINI is on cognitive mechanisms of autonomic computing and laws of human cooperative work organization. This editorial addresses key notions of this ...