In this article we provide a model for the dynamic behavior of media processing chains of tasks communicating via bounded buffers. The aim is to find the overall behavior of a cha...
M. A. Weffers-Albu, Johan J. Lukkien, Elisabet F. ...
In previous work, we have defined conceptual foundations that can be beneficially used in context modeling. These conceptual foundations include the separation of entity and conte...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are explicit statements about all expectations and obligations in the business partnership between customers and providers. They have been introduc...
Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, James Padgett, Georg ...
The paper describes the design of FAME (Flexible Access Middleware Extension) architecture aimed at providing multi-level user authentication service for Shibboleth, which is endo...
Aleksandra Nenadic, Ning Zhang, Jay Chin, Carole A...
Most Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms are able to find a single (or few) optimal, or near-optimal, solutions to difficult (NP-hard) problems. An issue though is that a s...