In many studies of self-organized criticality (SOC), branching processes were used to model the dynamics of the activity of the system during avalanches. This mathematical simpliļ...
Many scheduling problems reside in uncertain and dynamic environments ā tasks have a nonzero probability of failure and may need to be rescheduled. In these cases, an optimized ...
Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
Service-centric systems are driven more and more towards self-adaptation in order to satisfy QoS in highly dynamic environments. However, the young age and immaturity of this doma...
With the pressing in-time-market towards customized services, software product lines (SPL) are increasingly characterizing most of software landscape. SPL are mainly structured th...
The proliferation of handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones represents a new scenario for automatic signature verification. Traditionally, research on signature verificatio...