Because it takes time and trust to establish agreement, traditional consensus-based architectural styles cannot safely accommodate resources that change faster than it takes to tr...
Abstract. Symmetry reduction is a technique to alleviate state explosion in model checking by replacing a model of replicated processes with a bisimilar quotient model. The size of...
Distributed applications that adapt as their environment changes are developed from selfmanaging, self-configuring and self-optimising behaviours. This requires constant monitorin...
Systems such as software transactional memory and some exception handling techniques use transactions. However, a typical limitation of such systems is that they do not allow syst...
A MAS architecture consisting of service centers is proposed. Within each service center, a mediator coordinates service delivery by allocating individual tasks to corresponding t...