— Update of applications in SaaS is expected to be a continuous efforts and cannot be done overnight or over the weekend. In such migration efforts, users are trained and shifted...
— The dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks poses fundamental challenges to the design of service composition schemes that can minimize the effect of service disruptions. Alth...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose an unequal error protection (UEP) framework for progressive image transmission over wireless networks with both random errors and packet loss....
Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
Scatter search is an evolutionary method that has been successfully applied to hard optimization problems. The fundamental concepts and principles of the method were first propose...