Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers keep extending with new features the computing infrastructures they offer on a pay per use basis. In this paper we explore reasons and...
Many object-oriented frameworks exhibit a high density of design pattern applications. Usually, there are more instances in a framework than there are abstract classes. Yet, only ...
Dirk Riehle, Roger Brudermann, Thomas R. Gross, Ka...
We describe a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provis...
In this paper, we address the problem of providing a service broker, which offers to prospective users a composite service with a range of different Quality of Service (QoS) class...
Marco Abundo, Valeria Cardellini, Francesco Lo Pre...
We consider feature extraction (dimensionality reduction) for compositional data, where the data vectors are constrained to be positive and constant-sum. In real-world problems, t...