The ambient networking approach includes the flexibility of every end system to be not just a node but also an entire network. The end user entities are, in the majority of use cas...
This paper proposes a bio-inspired approach tailored to the construction of a Grid information system in which content, specifically metadata descriptors that specify the characte...
Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomeni...
Maintenance costs make up the bulk of the total life cycle costs of a software system. Besides organizational issues such as knowledge management and turnover, the longterm mainte...
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
To balance demand and supply of information, we propose a framework called “information supply chain” (ISC). This framework is based on supply chain management (SCM), which has...