Abstract. A Sentient Computing environment is one in which the system is able to perceive the state of the physical world and use this information to customise its behaviour. Mobil...
We present an analytic technique for modeling load balancing policies on a cluster of servers conditioned on the fact that the service times of arriving tasks are drawn from heavy...
: Scenario-based approaches are becoming ubiquitous in systems analysis and design but their definition and scope remain vague. Complementing the recently proposed CREWS classifica...
Klaus Weidenhaupt, Klaus Pohl, Matthias Jarke, Pet...
Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the evolution of technology and to the interest of market. Their development, however, is not yet supp...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become the preferred methodology to build complex enterprise applications. Inside an enterprise, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has emerged...