—In the environments where heterogeneous devices need to share information, utilize services of each other, and participate as components in various smart applications, it is com...
Several works on grid computing have been proposed in the last years. However, most of them, including available software, can not deal properly with some issues related to contro...
Application integration is a major trend in information technology today. In this paper we present a number of principles for the design, validation and presentation of process mod...
This paper presents a power evaluation framework designed for estimating power consumption of a new video telephone compression standard, ITU-H.263, at the system level. A hierarc...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...