People have a basic need to maintain the integrity of the self, a global sense of personal adequacy. Events that threaten self-integrity arouse stress and self-protective defenses that can hamper performance and growth. However, an intervention known as self-affirmation can curb these negative outcomes. Self-affirmation interventions typically have people write about core personal values. The i...

Due to the increasing scale, complexity, dynamicity and heterogeneity of modern software systems, it is not feasible to solely rely upon human management to guarantee a good service level with such availability demand. Self-managing systems are needed as an effective approach to deal with those issues by exploiting adaptive techniques to adjust a system. On top of that, model-based adaptation i...

 An adaptive input-output linearization method for general nonlinear systems is developed without using states of the system. Another key feature of this structure is the fact that, it does not need model of the system. In this scheme, neurolinearizer has few weights, so it is practical in adaptive situations.  Online training of neuroline...

Self-adaptive systems choose adaptations to perform on a running system. Typically, the self-adaptive ssytem must choose the “best” adaptation to perform in a given circumstance from a set of adaptations that may apply. Utility functions are typically used to encode some measure of goodness or badness the result of choosing a particular adaptation. Within the area of utility theory, there are a...

Critical Software systems must recover when they experience degradation, either through external actors or internal system failures. There is currently no accepted generic methodology used by the software engineering community to design self-healing systems. Such systems identify when they require healing resources, and then change their own behavior to acquire and utilize these same resources....

Self-Adaptive Systems are target of frequent research regarding different aspects. However, they still present several challenges related to assurance, dependability, verification, and validation. Adaptations can be related to a set of concerns (i.e., why, what, when, where, who, and how), which are evaluated during, operation and post operation phases. We propose the application of configurati...

Self-adaptive systems research is expanding as systems professionals recognize the importance of automation for managing the growing complexity, scale, and scope of software systems. The current approach to designing such systems is ad hoc, varied, and fractured, often resulting in systems with parts of multiple, sometimes poorly compatible designs. In addition to the challenges inherent to all...

In this paper, we outline a vision for constructing adaptive, self-organizing mobile adhoc networks using a COTS communications platform. Defense Technologies, Inc (DTI) has created an efficient data link communications platform on which adaptive, self-organizing network structures can be explored for autonomous C2 applications. We cite specifics about this platform, and discuss some of our pri...

psychological findings show that a lower iq score than the normal level is notenough to recognize someone as mentally retarded. in addition they have visibleand specific difficulties in their adaptive behaviors. research on adaptivebehaviors is useful for those with specific needs and if mentally retarded childrenwant to adapt themselves to social life, they should improve their adaptivebehavio...

in this paper, the optimal adaptive leader-follower consensus of linear continuous time multi-agent systems is considered. the error dynamics of each player depends on its neighbors’ information. detailed analysis of online optimal leader-follower consensus under known and unknown dynamics is presented. the introduced reinforcement learning-based algorithms learn online the approximate solution...