Multilevel caching, common in many storage configurations, introduces new challenges to traditional cache management: data must be kept in the appropriate cache and replication a...
Mobile software systems are characterized by their highly dynamic and unpredictable execution context. Such systems are permeating a number of domains where the systems operate in ...
Web service applications integrate explicit client-service interactions with notification-style programming. Such event-driven interactions are often called implicit invocations b...
Maintaining the Quality of Service (QoS) is important for self-healing web service-based distributed interactive applications. It requires the ability to deal with permanently cha...
Current technologies aimed at supporting processes – whether it is a business or learning process – primarily follow a metadata- and data-centric paradigm. Whereas process met...