The complexity of the cluster-based web service challenges the traditional approaches, which fail to guarantee the reliability and real-time performance required. In this paper, w...
Soft-device is a promising infrastructure of next-generation distributed system. Soft-devices are configurable and adaptive software virtual mechanism, providing services to each o...
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) supports the transformation from reusable models to executable software. Business representations, however, cannot be fully and explicitly represen...
Autonomic Management capabilities become increasingly important for attaining functional and quality goals in software systems. Nonetheless, successful Autonomic Management soluti...
Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly impro...