In a recent work, we have shown that it is not possible to dependably build any type of distributed f fault or intrusiontolerant system under the asynchronous model. This result f...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...
Many agent-based systems rely for their effectiveness on the intelligence of individual agents, and interaction among agents is required simply to coordinate these individually com...
The beliefs of an agent reflecting her subjective view of the world constitute one of the main components of a BDI agent. In order to incorporate new information coming from other...
Architecture Definition Languages (ADLs) enable the formalization of the architecture of software systems and the execution of preliminary analyses on them. These analyses aim at...
Over the past two years, horrific disasters such as the Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistan Earthquake have demonstrated the critical need for effective technologic...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pe...