Context Today, we are facing the growing development of distributed systems which their
vast scale has challenged their centralized management. Therefore, many researchers …

More and more, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will rely on
concepts from autonomous systems not only in mission control centers on the ground, but …

In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing
autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA …

In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large
systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to reduce …

We study the problem of verifying role-based multi-agent systems, where the number of
components cannot be determined at design time. We give a semantics that captures …

Emergence becomes a distinguishing system feature as system complexity grows with the
number of components, interactions, and connectivities. Examples of emergent behaviors …

When designing swarm-robotic systems, systematic comparison of algorithms from different
domains is necessary to determine which is capable of scaling up to handle the target …

Emergence is a distinguishing feature in systems, especially when complexity grows with
the number of components, interactions, and connectivity. There is immense interest in …

The paper deals with the problem of detection of imperfections of software quality
evaluation. Existing currently models and methods of the software quality evaluation weakly …

A watershed in systems engineering is represented by the advent of swarm-based systems
that accomplish missions through cooperative action by a (large) group of autonomous …