CONTEXT: With the increased use of software for running key functions in modern society it
is of utmost importance to understand software robustness and how to support it. Although …

Today's service-oriented systems realize many ideas from the research conducted a decade
or so ago in multiagent systems. Because these two fields are so deeply connected, further …

Despite the recent appearance of self-organizing distributed systems for Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks (MANETs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, specific theoretical aspects of both …

This paper describes how multiagent systems can be used to achieve robust software. The
paper develops the hypothesis that robust software can be achieved through redundancy …

Today's manufacturing systems are often too inflexible and not sufficiently adaptable to
rapidly changing environments with unpredictable and abrupt fluctuation in product …

Computational modeling pervades virtually every industrial process. By using numerical
representations of the behavior of elements that constitute a system it is possible to obtain …

Service-oriented computing is an increasingly popular approach for providing applications,
computational resources and business services over highly distributed and open systems …

Background: Autonomy is a key attribute of cyber-physical systems engineered to achieve
human-machine coexistence and collaboration toward human-centered goals. To be …

In a complex manufacturing environment the ability to handle unexpected events is from
crucial importance. Due to their distributed nature, multi-agent system provides a convenient …

Reliability is an issue of importance in Web service applications, as they often expose an
enterprise's critical processes, such as finance, insurance, customer-relationship …