Abstract— This paper focuses on large-scale distributed systems that can be modeled as workflows of activities sharing resources, knowledge, know-how and services. We propose a ...
Admitting that the quality of a decision depends on the quality of the knowledge used to make it, it is argued that the enhancement of the decision making efficiency and effectiven...
Christina E. Evangelou, Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Ma...
Wireless mesh sensor networks (WMSNs) have recently gained a lot of interest due to their communication capability to support various applications with different Quality of Service...
Jamila Ben Slimane, Yeqiong Song, Anis Koubaa, Mou...
Shared sensing infrastructures that allow multiple applications to share deployed sensors are emerging and Internet protocol based access for such sensors has already been prototy...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...