**'s Work Report at the 19th Party Congress in October 2017 invoked the Leninist
idea of the “vanguard Party,” stating that,“to lead the people to a better life is the Party's …

Abstract The Autonomic Computing paradigm reduces complexity in installing, configuring,
optimizing, and maintaining heterogeneous systems. Despite first discussing it a long ago, it …

Centralization has become a de facto standard for implementing networked environments
such as the Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS). Though easy to implement and control …

In real-time health analytics, smart cities, military sensing systems, and others, big data
analytics is enabled by the introduction of appropriate sensing and actuation systems. The …

In the field of distributed autonomous computing the current trend is to develop cooperating
computational entities enabled with enhanced self-* properties. The expression self …

Electronic institutions are socially-inspired multi-agent systems, typically operating under a
set of policies, which are required to determine system operation and to deal with violations …

Nowadays, in a turbulent environment, enterprise must be proactive and even predictive to
survive in front of the plenty natures of dynamics. Achieving the desired proactivity and …

The complexity of modern and emerging software systems has steadily increased. These
systems must adapt to preserve their operation in the presence of uncertain changes. One of …

The proliferation of social media platforms has revolutionized the way individuals interact,
communicate, and share information online. With billions of users worldwide engaging in …

Morphogenetic engineering represents an interesting field in which models, frameworks and
algorithms can be tested in order to study how self-* properties and emergent behaviours …