Future software systems will operate in a highly dynamic world. Systems will need to operate
correctly despite of unespected changes in factors such as environmental conditions, user …

The dimension of modern distributed systems is growing everyday. This phenomenon has
generated several management problems due to the increase in complexity and in the …

A declarative SQL-like language and a middleware infrastructure are presented for
collecting data from different nodes of a pervasive system. Data management is performed …

Many parameter estimation methods used in computer vision are able to utilise covariance
information describing the uncertainty of data measurements. This paper considers the …

The evolution of technology is leading to a world where computational systems are made of
a huge number of components spread over a logical network: these components operate in …

One of the today issues in software engineering is to find new effective ways to deal
intelligently with the increasing complexity of distributed computing systems. In particular …

When introducing self-organization into a system, its developer aims to reduce the system's
complexity, during development as well as during operation. More often than not, the self …

We believe that embracing nondeterminism and harnessing emergence have great potential
to simplify the task of programming manycore processors. To that end, we have designed …

The current research trends in software engineering are focusing on the development of
new techniques to deal intelligently and efficiently with the design of systems that are able to …

Natural systems solve multifaceted problems using simple rules, and exhibit organized,
complex, and intelligent behavior. Natural process control systems are adaptive …