The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows involves finding the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have service time windows, using a homogeneous ...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
Autonomic computer systems aim to reduce the configuration, operational, and maintenance costs of distributed enterprise applications. This paper provides two contributions to the...
Jules White, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
In a given environment, distributing different devices with computing capabilities around us opens up new possibilities. It allows simple and easy interaction between user and com...
Analytical modeling is an alternative to detailed performance simulation with the potential to shorten the development cycle and provide additional insights. This paper proposes a...