Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a serviceoriented system to meet QoS requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodolog...
: The use of agent paradigm in today’s applications is hampered by the security concerns of agents and hosts alike. The agents require the presence of a secure and trusted execut...
Central to a data cleaning system are record matching and data repairing. Matching aims to identify tuples that refer to the same real-world object, and repairing is to make a dat...
Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, Weny...
The new market forces have affected the operation of distribution centers (DCs) extremely. The DCs demand an increased productivity and a low cost in their daily operation. This pa...
: In several industry scenarios, it is often the case that an existing reference workflow has to be adapted according to specific context factors, which might even change at runtim...