: Software adaptation techniques appear in many disparate areas of research literature, and under many guises. This paper enables a clear and uniform understanding of the related r...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a system called the Active Vision Shell (AV-shell) which provides a programming framework for expressing and implementing autonomous robotic tas...
Jeffrey A. Fayman, Ehud Rivlin, Henrik I. Christen...
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...
OSIRIS is a middleware for the composition and orchestration of distributed web services that follows a P2P decentralized approach to process execution, providing already some deg...