In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
A new face recognition algorithm is presented. It supposes that a video sequence of a person is available both at enrollment and test time. During enrollment, a client Gaussian Mi...
A Self-Adaptive Recovery Net (SARN) is an extended Petri net model for specifying exceptional behavior in workflow systems. SARN caters for high-level recovery policies that are ...
There is growing interest in the notion of software development through the planned integration of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) products. The potential advantages of this integ...
In this paper we propose an approach to support dynamic or runtime variability in systems that must adapt dynamically to changing runtime context. The approach is founded on refle...
Nelly Bencomo, Gordon S. Blair, Carlos A. Flores-C...