Using conditional promises, the reliability of promises can be measured without considering the reliability of the whole agent, by defining notions of when conditions operate and ...
Reliability is a rapidly growing concern in contemporary Personal Computer (PC) industry, both for computer users as well as product developers. To improve dependability, systems ...
Abstract. CorSSO is a distributed service for authentication in networks. It allows application servers to delegate client identity checking to combinations of authentication serve...
This paper describes a validation approach of a socio-technical design support system using data mining techniques. Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) are used to assess human error an...
Andreas Gregoriades, Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Harala...
This paper examines the issue of dynamically scheduling applications on a wide-area network computing system. We construct a simulation model for wide-area task allocation problem...