Existing workflow management systems encapsulate the data and behavior of a process within its execution scope, preventing other processes from accessing this information until th...
Pervasive learning promises an exciting learning environment such that users can access content and study them at anytime, anywhere, through any devices. Besides delivering the ri...
Zhiwen Yu, Norman Lin, Yuichi Nakamura, Shoji Kaji...
Non-functional specifications of software components are considered an important asset in constructing dependable systems, since they enable early Quality of Service (QoS) evaluati...
The full deployment of service robots in daily activities will require the robot to adapt to the needs of non-expert users, particularly, to learn how to perform new tasks from “...
Ana C. Tenorio-Gonzalez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis ...
We consider soft real-time applications organised as pipelines of tasks using resources of different type (communication, computation, storage). The applications are assumed to be...