Scheduling and load-balancing techniques play an integral role in reducing the overall execution time of scientific applications on clustered multi-node systems. The increasing co...
S. P. Muszala, Gita Alaghband, Daniel A. Connors, ...
: One focus of current software development is the re-use of components in the construction of systems. Software Adaptation facilitates the consequent need to adapt these component...
It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
In this paper we describe a compromise between generative planning and special-purpose software. Hierarchical functional models are used by an intelligent system to represent its ...
Business processes, the next-generation workflows, have attracted considerable research interest in the last 15 years. More recently, several XML-based languages have been propose...