Quality of software is one of the major issues in software intensive systems and it is important to analyze it as early as possible. An increasingly important quality attribute of complex software systems is adaptability. Software architecture for adaptive software systems should be flexible enough to allow components to change their behaviors depending upon the environmental and stakeholders' ...

Is there a real need for another general textbook on invertebrate zoology? I would say no. Indeed, to begin with, there is little scope for imagination in this kind of endeavor since there already exist numerous volumes saying much the same thing about essentially the same organisms. The text in general is adequate in its presentation of the various phyla and each chapter begins with a useful s...

So far, the main focus of research on adaptability in multi-agent systems (MASs) has been on the agents’ behavior, for example on developing new learning techniques and more flexible action selection mechanisms. However, we introduce a different type of adaptability in MASs, called time management adaptability. Time management adaptability focuses on adaptability in MASs with respect to executi...

This paper proposes a discrete wavelet-based stereo matching technique. A discrete wavelet transform is first applied to a pair of stereo images to decorrelate the images into a number of approximations. Information in the basebands is less sensitive to shift variability of the wavelet transform. A self-adapting dissimilarity measure is employed to generate a disparity map of the stereo pairs. ...

Adaptability, i.e. the ability of a system to adapt dynamically to changes in its execution environment, is considered as an important property of computer systems. Scaling directory replication in name servers and load balancing are well known examples. However , adaptability in today's systems, if present at all, generally is burnt in and dedicated to singular properties of the execution envi...