The field of pervasive computing has seen a lot of exciting innovations in the past few years. However, there are currently no mechanisms for describing the properties and capabil...
Advances in Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks have propitiated the rise of Grids. The scheduling of applications is complex in Grids due ...
Resource management is a central part of a Grid computing system. In a large-scale wide-area system such as the Grid, security is a prime concern. One approach is to be conservati...
— Chemotaxis can be defined as an innate behavioural response by an organism to a directional stimulus, in which bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct...
Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Ros...
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...