Business Process Management (BPM) is often a key component of the business change. Business rules, whether embedded within BPM or on their own, have begun playing an ever-increasi...
Performing QoS (Quality of Service) control in large computing systems requires an on line metric that is representative of the real state of the system. The Tardiness Quantile Me...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
In this paper we study the soft real-time web cluster architecture needed to support e-commerce and related applications. Our testbed is based on an industry standard, which defin...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
Nominally, one can expect any user of modern technology to carry a handheld device such an iPAQ or cellphone and utilize resources in the environment to remain connected and enjoy...
Abstract. When smart objects participate in context-aware applications, changes in their real-world environment can have a significant impact on underlying networking structures. ...