The use of handheld networked devices to access information systems by people moving around is spreading rapidly. Systems being used in this way typically face dynamic variation in...
Svein O. Hallsteinsen, Jacqueline Floch, Erlend St...
Abstract. A challenging software engineering problem is the design and implementation of component-based (CB) applications that can meet specified performance requirements. Our PPC...
Large-scale information processing applications must rapidly search through high volume streams of structured and unstructured textual data to locate useful information. Content-ba...
Web Services are emerging technologies that enable application-to-application communication and reuse of autonomous services over the Web. Recent efforts, OWL-S, model the semanti...
Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...