The service-oriented computing paradigm is in widespread use for adaptive systems that face changing conditions in their operational environment as well as the integration of new services. In many domains, adaptations may ...

peer-reviewed applications that cross the boundaries of different computing machines, operating systems, and programming languages are increasingly the norm. As a result, the need for what might be called “bridging ...

This paper introduces Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (CRL), a coordination model for solving system-wide optimisation problems in distributed systems where there is no support for global state. In CRL the autonomic ...

We present a CSP model of the internal behaviour of Flash Memory, based on its speci cation by the Open Nand-Flash Interface (ONFi) consortium. This contributes directly to the low-level modelling of the data-storage ...

Integrating individual intelligent transportation systems into comprehensive platforms is a key challenge faced by transport authorities in the provision of optimal service s to users. The use of an ITS architecture ...

Service-oriented architecture is an architectural approach that can be applied for building autonomous service systems dynamically to satisfy on-demand business requests. During the execution of service compositions, ...

In this work, we compare current approaches to dynamic adaptation (DA) and identify the need for further research on mechanisms for DA, which should allow for higher compositionality and flexibility. Moreover, after exploring ...

Feature interaction describes a situation where the combination of two or more services that individually perform correctly results in unexpected and possibly adverse behaviour. Such feature interaction issues have first ...

In this paper, we give a graph-based definition of the distillation transformation algorithm. This definition is made within a similar framework to the positive supercompilation algorithm, thus allowing for a more in-depth ...