When modeling high-dimensional richly structured data, it is often the case that the distribution defined by the Deep Boltzmann Machine (DBM) has a rough energy landscape with man...
Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
Abstract. The aim of component technology is the replacement of large monolithic applications with sets of smaller software components, whose particular functionality and interoper...
Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
Adaptability has become one of the most important research areas in concurrent object-oriented systems in recent years. It tries to cope with system evolution by adding/replacing ...