Emergent Software Systems: Theory and Practice

Rodrigues Filho, R., Porter, B., Costa, F. & Sene, I., 16/08/2021, Short Courses of the 39th Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems. Ferreira de Rezende, J., Vieira Cardoso, K., Frosi Rosa, P. & de Oliveira Silva, F. (eds.). Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao, p. 1-50 50 p.

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Cliff-edge consensus: agreeing on the precipice

Taïani, F., Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Raynal, M., 2013, Parallel computing technologies: 12th International Conference, PaCT 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 30 - October 4, 2013. Proceedings. Malyshkin, V. (ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 51-64 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7979).

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Overlay-based Middleware for the Pervasive Grid

Grace, P., Hughes, D., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S., Porter, B. & Taiani, F., 01/2010, Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications. IGI

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A Self-distributing System Framework for the Computing Continuum

Rodrigues-Filho, R., Dias, R., Serodio, J., Porter, B., Costa, F., Borin, E. & Bittencourt, L., 1/06/2023, (E-pub ahead of print) International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. IEEE

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Exploiting the Potential of the Edge-Cloud Continuum with Self-distributing Systems

Rodrigues Filho, R., Bittencourt, L., Porter, B. & Costa, F., 15/10/2022, (Accepted/In press) International Workshop on Cloud and Edge Computing. IEEE, 7 p.

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MARbLE: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning at the Edge for Digital Agriculture

Boubin, J., Burley, C., Han, P., Li, B., Porter, B. & Stewart, C., 1/10/2022, (Accepted/In press) Symposium on Edge Computing. IEEE

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Emergent Web Server: An Exemplar to Explore Online Learning in Compositional Self-Adaptive Systems

Rodrigues Filho, R., Alberts, E., Gerostathopoulos, I., Porter, B. & Costa, F., 15/08/2022, SEAMS '22: Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. New York: ACM, p. 36-42 7 p.

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Using phylogenetic analysis to enhance genetic improvement

Rainford, P. & Porter, B., 8/07/2022, GECCO '22: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Fieldsend, J. E. (ed.). New York: ACM, p. 849-957 9 p.

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AmbiDots: An Ambient Interface to Mediate Casual Social Settings through Peripheral Interaction

Thompson, E., Potts, D., Hardy, J., Porter, B. & Houben, S., 30/11/2021, Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021. Buchanan, G., Davis, H., Al Mahmud, A., Sarsenbayeva, Z., Soro, A., Munoz, D., Potter, L. E., Taylor, J. L. & Tsimeris, J. (eds.). New York: ACM, p. 99-110 12 p. (33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction).

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A Programming Language for Sound Self-Adaptive Systems

Porter, B. & Rodrigues Filho, R., 1/10/2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS). IEEE, p. 145-150 6 p.

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Open Challenges in Genetic Improvement for Emergent Software Systems

Rainford, P. & Porter, B., 7/07/2021, 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Genetic Improvement (GI). IEEE, p. 43-44 2 p.

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The Design Space of Emergent Scheduling for Distributed Execution Frameworks

Dean, P. & Porter, B., 29/06/2021, Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. IEEE, p. 186-195 10 p.

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A Survey of Methodology in Self-Adaptive Systems Research

Porter, B., Rodrigues Filho, R. & Dean, P., 15/09/2020, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS). IEEE, p. 168-177 10 p.

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Autonomous State-Management Support in Distributed Self-adaptive Systems

Rodrigues Filho, R. & Porter, B., 15/09/2020, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C). IEEE, p. 176-181 6 p.

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Performance Optimization on big.LITTLE Architectures: A Memory-latency Aware Approach

Wolff, W. & Porter, B., 1/06/2020, LCTES '20: The 21st ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems. New York: ACM, p. 51–61 11 p.

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General Program Synthesis using Guided Corpus Generation and Automatic Refactoring

Wild, A. & Porter, B., 31/08/2019, Search-Based Software Engineering: 11th International Symposium, SSBSE 2019, Tallinn, Estonia, August 31 – September 1, 2019, Proceedings. Nejati, S. & Gay, G. (eds.). Cham: Springer-Verlag, p. 89-104 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11664).

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Emergent Scheduling of Distributed Execution Frameworks

Dean, P. & Porter, B., 8/08/2019, Doctoral Symposium at the International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. IEEE, p. 240-242 3 p.

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Code Synthesis in Self-improving Software Systems

Rodrigues Filho, R., Wild, A. & Porter, B., 8/08/2019, International Workshop of Self-Improving System Integration. IEEE, p. 4-5 2 p.

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Distributed Emergent Software: Assembling, Perceiving and Learning Systems at Scale

Porter, B. & Rodrigues Filho, R., 1/08/2019, 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). IEEE, p. 127-136 10 p.

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Towards Emergent Microservices for Client-Tailored Design

Rodrigues Filho, R. V., Pereira de Sa, M., Porter, B. F. & Costa, F., 10/12/2018, 17th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware . ACM, 6 p. 2

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Hierarchical Self-awareness and Authority for Scalable Self-integrating Systems

Diaconescu, A., Porter, B. F., Rodrigues Filho, R. V. & Pournaras, E., 3/09/2018, 2018 IEEE 3rd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W). IEEE, p. 168-175 8 p.

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Experiments in Genetic Divergence for Emergent Systems

McGowan, C., Wild, A. & Porter, B. F., 2/06/2018, GI '18 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement Workshop. ACM, p. 9-16 8 p.

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Improving Spark Application Throughput Via Memory Aware Task Co-location: A Mixture of Experts Approach

Sanz Marco, V., Taylor, B., Porter, B. F. & Wang, Z., 11/12/2017, Middleware '17 Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference. New York: ACM, p. 95-108 14 p.

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Real-time power cycling in video on demand data centres using online Bayesian prediction

Sanz Marco, V., Wang, Z. & Porter, B. F., 5/06/2017, 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE, p. 2125-2130 6 p.

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Experiments with a machine-centric approach to realise distributed emergent software systems

Rodrigues Filho, R. & Porter, B. F., 13/12/2016, ARM 2016 Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware. New York: ACM, 6 p. 1

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Losing control: the case for emergent software systems using autonomous assembly, perception and learning

Porter, B. F. & Rodrigues Filho, R., 8/12/2016, 2016 IEEE 10th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). IEEE, p. 40-49 10 p. (Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2016 IEEE 10th International Conference on).

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REX: a development platform and online learning approach for Runtime emergent software systems

Porter, B. F., Grieves, M., Rodrigues Filho, R. & Leslie, D. S., 2/11/2016, Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. USENIX Association, p. 333-348 16 p.

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Demonstrating a runtime machine-centric emergent software architecture framework

Rodrigues Filho, R. & Porter, B. F., 17/07/2016, Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, p. 239-240 2 p.

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Teaching computer science to 5-7 year-olds: an initial study with Scratch, Cubelets and unplugged computing

Wohl, B., Porter, B. & Clinch, S., 9/11/2015, WiPSCE '15 Proceedings of the Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education . New York: ACM, p. 55-60 6 p.

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Hitch Hiker: a remote binding model with priority based data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

Ramachandran, G. S., Daniels, W., Proença, J., Michiels, S., Joosen, W., Hughes, D. & Porter, B. F., 1/01/2015, CBSE '15 Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering. New York: ACM, p. 43-48 6 p.

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Environmental IoT: programming cyber-physical clouds with high-level system specifications

Rodrigues Filho, R., Porter, B. & Blair, G., 12/2014, Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on. IEEE, p. 947-950 4 p.

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Runtime modularity in complex structures: a component model for fine grained runtime adaptation

Porter, B., 06/2014, CBSE '14 Proceedings of the 17th international ACM Sigsoft symposium on Component-based software engineering. New York: ACM, p. 29-34 6 p.

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From missions to systems: generating transparently distributable programs for sensor-oriented systems

Porter, B., Dearle, A. & Dobson, S., 12/2012, MidSens '12 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks. New York: ACM, p. 1-6 6 p.

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PAMPA in the wild: a real-life evaluation of a lightweight ad-hoc broadcasting family

Winstanley, C., Ramdhany, R., Taiani, F., Porter, B. & Miranda, H., 12/2012, MidSens '12 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks. New York: ACM, p. 1-6 6 p.

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Type-safe updating for modular WSN software

Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Roedig, U., 06/2011, Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops (DCOSS), 2011 International Conference on . IEEE, p. 1-8 8 p.

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The Lorien dynamic component based OS

Porter, B., Roedig, U., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 11/2010, SenSys '10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. ACM, p. 355-356 2 p.

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A comparison of static and dynamic component models for Wireless Sensor Networks

Porter, B., Roedig, U., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 04/2010, Proceedings of the The First International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET2010). 11 p.

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Virtualising testbeds to support large-scale reconfigurable experimental facilities

Baumgartner, T., Chatzigiannakis, I., Danckwardt, M., Koninis, C., Kroller, A., Mylonas, G., Pfisterer, D. & Porter, B., 2010, Wireless Sensor Networks : 7th European Conference, EWSN 2010, Coimbra, Portugal, February 17-19, 2010. Proceedings. Silva, J. S., Krishnamachari, B. & Boavida, F. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 210-223 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5970).

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Lorien: a pure dynamic component-based operating system for wireless sensor networks

Porter, B. & Coulson, G., 2009, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks. New York: ACM, p. 7-12 6 p. (MidSens '09).

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Experiences with open overlays: a middleware approach to network heterogeneity

Grace, P., Hughes, D., Porter, B., Blair, G. S., Coulson, G. & Taiani, F., 2008, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008 (Eurosys '08). New York: ACM, p. 123-136 14 p.

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Using grid technologies to optimise a wireless sensor network for flood management

Hughes, D., Greenwood, P., Porter, B., Grace, P., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S., Taiani, F., Pappenberger, F., Smith, P. J. & Beven, K., 11/2006, Proceeding SenSys '06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems. p. 389-390 2 p.

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Addressing network heterogeneity in pervasive application environments

Grace, P., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S. & Porter, B., 05/2006, Proceeding InterSense '06 Proceedings of the first international conference on Integrated internet ad hoc and sensor networks.

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A generic self-repair approach for overlays

Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Taiani, F., 2006, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Pt 2, Proceedings. Meersman, R., Tari, Z. & Herrero, P. (eds.). BERLIN: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Vol. 4278. p. 1490-1499 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Generalised repair for overlay networks

Porter, B., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 2006, SRDS 2006: 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Proceedings. Kawada, S. (ed.). LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, p. 132-142 11 p.

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A specification-to-deployment architecture for overlay networks

Behnel, S., Buchmann, A., Grace, P., Porter, B. & Coulson, G., 2006, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: COOPIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE, Proceedings Part II. Meersman, R. & Tari, Z. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 1522-1540 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4276).

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Intelligent dependability services for overlay networks

Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Hughes, D., 2006, Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. Eliassen, F. & Montresor, A. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 199-212 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4025).

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Deep middleware for the divergent grid

Grace, P., Coulson, G., Blair, G. & Porter, B., 2005, Proceeding Middleware '05 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2005 International Conference on Middleware. Alonso, G. (ed.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 334-353 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3790).

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A generic approach to dependability in overlay networks

Porter, B. & Coulson, G., 2005, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systsems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops, Proceedings. Meersman, R., Tari, Z. & Herrero, P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 18-19 2 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3762).

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How to Build Emergent Software Systems (Tutorial)

Rodrigues Filho, R. & Porter, B., 8/08/2019, International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. IEEE, p. 253-254 2 p.

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