Simulations utilizing virtual humans, or computer controlled agents, are more predominant now than ever. Many of these simulations suffer from a lack of effective, stimulating, and...
—Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the flexibility of dynamically composing business processes in enterprise computing. However, they must be enhanced to support real...
Creating good adaptation policies is critical to building complex autonomic systems since it is such policies that define the system configuration used in any given situation. W...
Gueyoung Jung, Kaustubh R. Joshi, Matti A. Hiltune...
Digital Preservation deals with the long-term storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives a...
Abstract. Despite significant progress in the development of Grid infrastructure, the provisioning of a customized and controllable remote execution environment remains an open iss...
Katarzyna Keahey, Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, ...