Performance is an important quality attribute that needs to be and managed proactively. Abstract models of the system are not very useful if they do not produce reasonably accurat...
Gopalakrishna Raghavan, Ari Salomaki, Raimondas Le...
Simulation is a low cost alternative to experimentation on real-world physical systems. Grid technology enables coordinated use of and secure access to distributed computing resou...
Xinjun Chen, Wentong Cai, Stephen John Turner, Yon...
Smart Messages (SMs) are migratory execution units used to describe distributed computations over mobile ad hoc networks of embedded systems. The main benefits provided by SMs ar...
This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...
In this paper, an interactive image retrieval scheme using MPEG-7 visual descriptors is proposed. The performance of image retrieval systems is still limited due to semantic gap, w...