Agent-based computing is an active field of research with the goal of building autonomous
software of hardware entities. This task is often facilitated by the use of dedicated …

Improvement of air quality and provision of the residents' comfort in different buildings are
the main tasks of HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) systems. A large number …

IEC 61499 is a reference architecture for constructing Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
(ICPS). However, current function block development environments only provide limited fault …

With the emergence of IoT technologies, autonomous vehicles, and introduction of 5G
networking, the idea of a smart city is considerably more achievable than before. One of the …

Autism is a disease that appears in the first stage of life and produces significant imbalances
in the behaviour of people affected by this disease. According to existing data, autism is …

Humans demonstrate ingenious ways of solving engineering problems, but their
approaches to finding faults are often laborious and time-intensive. Their manual techniques …

We have come to rely on industrial-scale cyber-physical systems more and more to manage
tasks and machinery in safety-critical situations. Efficient, reliable fault identification and …

Software agents are often seen as “intelligent, autonomous software components.”
Interestingly, the question of efficient implementation of “intelligence” remains open. In this …

In a long history of inventing different methods for assessing software quality huge number
of software metrics has been proposed. In this paper we will first give a brief overview of …

In the last twenty years, the advancements in pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
have lead to a fast development of smart environments, where various cyber-physical …