, are to address what we perceive as the most pressing shortcomings of current reflective middleware platforms. First, performance: in the worst case, this needs to be on a par wit...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Michael Clarke, Ni...
This paper presents the development of a user-oriented framework to support the user reconfiguration of ubiquitous domestic environments. We present a lightweight component model t...
Jan Humble, Andy Crabtree, Terry Hemmings, Karl-Pe...
This research presents an integrated simulation modelingDesign For Six Sigma (DFSS) framework to study the design and process issues in a server manufacturing environment. The ser...
Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Pei-Fang Tsai, Christiana ...
RPC is one of the programming models envisioned for the Grid. In Internet connected Large Scale Grids such as Desktop Grids, nodes and networks failures are not rare events. This ...
— We consider a distributed system modeled as a possibly large network of automata. Planning in this system consists in selecting and organizing actions in order to reach a goal ...