Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
Business processes play a central role in the reorganization of a company and the (re)design of the respective information system(s). Typically the processes are described with the...
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...
Users of multimedia applications today are equipped with a variety of different (mobile) devices that each come with different operating systems, memory and CPU capabilities, netw...
Important challenges for compiler optimization include determining what optimizations to apply, where to apply them and what is a good sequence in which to apply them. To address t...