The need for network stability and reliability has led to the growth of autonomic networks [2] that can provide more stable and more reliable communications via on-line measuremen...
The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Ubiquitous applications are facing a large diversity of execution contexts. However, this diversity requires some continual adaptation to preserve the correct execution of these ap...