—Ben Clacy and Brian Jennings presented their recently published paper with the title of “service management: driving the future of IT” [1], which highlighted service oriente...
Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...
Web applications have become the major means to allow ubiquitous access to backend systems via a web browser. Several technologies such as JSP, ASP.NET, or Java Server Faces exist ...
Distributed embedded systems implemented with mixed, eventtriggered and time-triggered task sets, which communicate over bus protocols consisting of both static and dynamic phases...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...