Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for...
Higher Education Institutions are now spending a significant portion of their budget to implement and maintain modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. ERP is a softwa...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...