In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
Background: Successful realization of a "systems biology" approach to analyzing cells is a grand challenge for our understanding of life. However, current modeling appro...
Management of large data repositories integrated into the Grid poses new challenges for Grid research. There already exist several successful Data Grid projects addressing process...
Bernhard Fiser, Umut Onan, Ibrahim Elsayed, Peter ...
Context-aware applications and middleware platforms are evolving into major driving factors for pervasive systems. The ability to also make accurate assumptions about future contex...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...