Resource heterogeneity offers a new challenge to portability of resource critical applications such as multimedia or interactive applications. Under heterogeneous environments, a ...
Web service composition (WSC) techniques assume that the parameters used to model the environment remain static and accurate throughout the composition's execution. However, W...
Abstract— This work presents an infrastructure that simplifies the development of distributed applications that can adapt automatically to nonfunctional properties of their comp...
Mobile thin client computing is an enabler for the execution of demanding applications from mobile handhelds. In thin client computing, the application is executed on remote serve...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...