Self-Healing and self-optimizing service based applications are important steps towards the self-organizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Self-Organizing SOAs replace serv...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...
Simulation and Emulation techniques are fundamental to aid the process of large-scale protocol design and network operations. However, the results from these techniques are often ...
David W. Bauer, Garrett R. Yaun, Christopher D. Ca...
: In recent years, the number of ontologies shared on the Web has increased dramatically, supporting a growing set of applications such as biological knowledge sharing, enhanced se...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...