In decision support systems for Intensive Care Units (ICU), the data management subsystem plays an essential role since the data have a heterogeneous origin. The temporal dimension...
—Controlled mobile helper nodes called data ferries have recently been proposed to bridge communications between disconnected nodes in a delay-tolerant manner. While existing wor...
Chi Harold Liu, Ting He, Kang-won Lee, Kin K. Leun...
Large scale / mega projects are lengthy complex endeavors that require significant planning by management, engineers and construction personnel to ensure the success of the projec...
Advanced multimedia applications (e.g. based on MPEG-4) will consist of multiple scalable multimedia objects. This scalability enables the application to adapt to different proces...
Nam Pham Ngoc, Gauthier Lafruit, Jean-Yves Mignole...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...