"This book has evolved from materials used in an undergraduate course intended for final year undergraduate students whose background includes at least one year's experie...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
Abstract—The principles and best practices of object oriented design require that modules in a program should match logical decomposition of the knowledge that the program implem...
—In the grid context, there is little support for programming paradigms such as shared data or associative programming. We have previously proposed an original idea to attack sha...
Dacian Tudor, Georgiana Macariu, Wolfgang Schreine...
—The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move from the CPU to peripherals such as disk drives. Storage system d...
Tina Miriam John, Anuradharthi Thiruvenkata Ramani...