Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve con...
Jaelson Castro, Carla T. L. L. Silva, John Mylopou...
This paper studies the system parameters that affect the total cost of managing the multicast group on a router. A Petri net model is first proposed to describe the states and t...
Recently, growing attention is focused on run-time management of Quality of Service (QoS) of complex software systems. In this context, self-adaptation of applications, based on r...
Mauro Caporuscio, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola Invera...
Visual analysis of human behavior has generated considerable interest in the field of computer vision because of the wide spectrum of potential applications. In this paper, we pre...
Yu-Ming Liang, Sheng-Wen Shih, Arthur Chun-Chieh S...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...