- The rise in high speed networks has led to an increased interest in the development of grid computing frameworks; the ubiquity of the broadband Internet connection has fostered w...
Effective security mechanisms are essential to the widespread deployment of pervasive systems. Much of the research focus on security in pervasive computing has revolved around dis...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) include quality of service (QoS) constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue wh...
Mike J. Boniface, Stephen C. Phillips, Alfonso S&a...
The adequate location of wells in oil and environmental applications has a significant economical impact on reservoir management. However, the determination of optimal well locatio...
Manish Parashar, Vincent Matossian, Wolfgang Bange...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...