System execution modeling (SEM) tools provide an effective means to evaluate the quality of service (QoS) of enterprise distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. SEM tools...
James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt, Adam A. Porter,...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
A new emerging paradigm of Uncertain Risk of Suspicion, Threat and Danger, observed across the field of information security, is described. Based on this paradigm a novel approac...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Users tend to use the Internet for “resource-hungry” applications (which involve content such as video, audio on-demand and distributed data) and at the same time, more and mo...
George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali,...