Confalonieri, Roberto (Date of defense: 2011-12-02)
Intelligent systems that assist users in fulfilling complex tasks need a concise and processable representation of incomplete and uncertain information. In order to be able to choose among different ...
Álvarez Napagao, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
As distributed systems grow in complexity, the interactions among individuals (agents, services) of such systems become increasingly more complex and therefore more difficult to constrain and monitor. ...
Gómez Sebastià, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
With the growth of the Internet, computational systems have become more and more complex, often including complicate interconnected networks of autonomous components. The need to bring some organisational ...
Panagiotidi, Sofia (Date of defense: 2014-09-29)
As distributed electronic systems grow to include thousands of components, from grid to peer-to-peer nodes, from (Semantic) Web services to web-apps to computation in the cloud, governance of such systems ...