Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
In modern architectures based on Web Services or Cloud Computing, a very large number of user requests arrive concurrently and has to be scheduled for execution constrained by cor...
The effectiveness of support provided to virtual communities depends strongly on what we know about a particular community of people and in what areas the community needs support....
Abstract—Packet delay traces are important measurements for analyzing end-to-end performance and for designing traffic control algorithms in computer networks. Due to the fact t...
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...