Abstract Metacomputing is the seamless application of geographically-separated distributed computing resources to user applications. We consider the scheduling of metaapplications;...
Even modern component architectures do not provide for easily manageable context-sensitive adaptability, a key requirement for ambient intelligence. The reason is that components a...
Connectors are used to realize component interactions in component systems. Apart from their primary function, which is mediating the communication, their implementation can also s...
This paper describes a method for seamless enlargement or editing of difficult colour textures containing simultaneously both regular periodic and stochastic components. Such textu...
The application of software agent technology to the management of communications' infrastructures is a challenging domain as it requires management on different time scales a...
Alex L. Hayzelden, John Bigham, Stefan Poslad, Phi...