Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
There has been a growing interest to develop technologies for laboratory environments. However, existing systems are underdeployed in real research labs. In order to create more s...
This work is done as part of the Tacos project1 whose aims is to define a component-based approach to specify trustworthy systems from the requirements phase to the specification p...
The service-oriented architectural style is widely perceived today. However, service orientation is a very general concept and its application in real-life situations is somewhat ...
This paper concerns versioning services over Semantic Web (SW) repositories. We propose a novel storage index (based on partial orders), called POI, that exploits the fact that RDF...