Cyber-physical systems increasingly rely on dynamically adaptive programs to respond to changes in their physical environment; examples include ecosystem monitoring and disaster r...
Design patterns are an established means for building evolvable and maintainable object-oriented software. However, using them requires the developer’s extensive experience. A w...
Abstract. Grid computing is based on coordinated resource sharing in a dynamic environment of multi-institutional virtual organizations. Data exchanges, and service allocation, are...
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...
The project CommonGIS1 aims at building a system allowing users to view and analyze geographically referenced thematic data. The system is oriented to the general public, i.e. peop...