A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
Considering that current end to end communication services are not adapted for supporting efficiently distributed multimedia application, this paper introduces a new family of gene...
Distributed stream processing systems (DSPSs) have many important applications such as sensor data analysis, network security, and business intelligence. Failure management is ess...
Xiaohui Gu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu, Sh...
In the mobile learning context, it is helpful to consider context awareness and adaptivity as two sides of the same coin. The purpose of the adaptivity and context awareness is to...
Abstract. Autonomic computing is being advocated as a tool for maintaining and managing large, complex computing systems. Self-organising multi-agent systems provide a suitable par...
Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. Je...