At one time, JEAB editorial policy was perceived by some to consist mainly of dogmatically enforcing a Skinnerian interpretation of all findings reported in the journal. Partly in response to that undeserved reputation, the journal explicitly defined itself as the place to publish research on the behavior of individual organisms, and not as a place that encourages any particular theoretical ori...

We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independent adaptable and adaptive policy framework suitable for integration in a wide variety of middleware systems. This framework facilitates the construction of adaptive distributed applications. The framework addresses ad...

We consider the constrained optimization of a nite-state, nite action Markov chain. In the adaptive problem, the transition probabilities are assumed to be unknown, and no prior distribution on their values is given. We consider constrained optimization problems in terms of several cost criteria which are asymptotic in nature. For these criteria we show that it is possible to achieve the same o...

Note. This original form of this rebuttal was submitted to Science on 3 March 2017 (limited to 300 words as per Science editorial policy) but rejected on 13 March 2017. Herein, we elaborate on our original Science submission in order to more fully address the issue without the length limitations. This rebuttal is followed by the list of the signatories who supported our original submission.

Power management techniques for mobile appliances put the components of the systems into low power states to maximize battery life while minimizing the impact on the perceived performance of the devices. Static timeout policies are the stateof-the-art approach for solving power management problems. In this work, we propose adaptive timeout policies as a simple and efficient solution for fine-gr...

In this paper, we present a formal model, named PobSAM (Policy-based Self-Adaptive Model), for modeling self-adaptive systems. In this model, policies are used as a mechanism to direct and adapt the behavior of self-adaptive systems. A PobSAM model consists of a set of self-managed modules(SMM). An SMM is a collection of autonomous managers and managed actors. Managed actors are dedicated to fu...