In parallel systems, similar jobs tend to arrive within bursty periods. This fact leads to the existence of the locality phenomenon, a persistent similarity between nearby jobs, in...
Multi-agent System Product Lines (MAS-PLs) have emerged to integrate software product lines (SPLs) and agent-oriented software engineering techniques by incorporating their respec...
Constraints are used in traditional database systems to define consistent database states. For multimedia data it is also important to define constraints for a correct data outp...
Dynamically reconfigurable co-processors (DRCs) are interesting design alternatives when both flexibility and performance are concerns. However, it is difficult to study the perfor...
There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment an...