Global illumination provides a visual richness not achievable with the direct illumination models used by most interactive applications. To generate global effects, numerous appro...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Multivariate time series (MTS) data sets are common in various multimedia, medical and financial application domains. These applications perform several data-analysis operations ...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...
A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; ...