Recently a new generation of virtual worlds has emerged in which users are provided with open-ended modelling tools with which they can create and modify world content. The result...
Large scale distributed systems typically have interactions among different services that create an avenue for propagation of a failure from one service to another. The failures ...
Data Warehouse (DWH) systems represent a single source of information for analyzing the status, the development and the results of an organization. Today's DWH systems provide...
We present a resource management algorithm based upon guided “walks” within a system state space. Walks are guided via simple predictions of optimum behavior whose accuracy inc...
— Ubiquitous computing provides services to users, according to their current situation. Interactions with such programs are as implicit as possible. We find among the applicati...