On-line reconfiguration is the ability to rearrange dynamically the elements of a system to accommodate failure events or new requirements. Due to the modular representation, decentralized discreteevent approach, recently proposed for the diagnosis of systems, is particularly well suited to the diagnosis of reconfigurable systems. The contribution of this article is to extend our decentralized ...

The control and diagnosis networks in Maglev Train are the most important parts. In the paper, the control and diagnosis network structures are discussed, and the disadvantages of them are described and analyzed. In virtue of role automation decentralized system (RoADS), some basic ideas of RoADS are applied in new network. The structure, component parts and application of new network are propo...

This paper describes a project redesigning psychiatric services for children and adolescents, introducing a new decentralized model into the ordinary structures of health care services in rural areas in Norway by using mobile phone technology. The authors apply a multilayer and dialectic perspective in the analysis of the innovation process that created the ICT solution that supports this treat...

Open and decentralised multi-agent systems (ODMAS) are particularly vulnerable to the introduction of faulty or malevolent agents. Indeed, such systems rely on collective tasks that are performed collaboratively by several agents that interact to coordinate themselves. It is therefore very important that agents respect the system rules, especially concerning interaction, in order to achieve suc...

SETTING The cost of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment is a major barrier to treatment scale-up in South Africa. OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare the cost of treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) in South Africa in different models of care in different settings. DESIGN We estimated the costs of different models of care with varying levels of hospitalisati...