Database technology is one of the cornerstones for the new millennium's IT landscape. However, database systems as a unit of code packaging and deployment are at a crossroad:...
In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting ngly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the a...
Abstract. The increasing need for device independence and personalization forces organizations to automatically adapt their Web Information Systems (WISs) to individual users and t...
— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...
The dramatic increase in the number of mobile subscribers has put a significant resource and service provisioning strain on current cellular networks in particular in terms of mu...