Abstract. We discuss a case study for the hospital scenario where workflow model components are distributed across various computers or devices (e.g. mobile phones, PDAs, sensors, ...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
Abstract-- This paper addresses the problem of tracking extended objects, such as ships or a convoy of vehicles moving in urban environment. Two Monte Carlo techniques for extended...
This work is concerned with the efficient design of a reverse logistics network using an extended version of models currently found in the literature. Those traditional, basic mo...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...