Engineering distributed systems is a challenging activity. This is partly due to the intrinsic complexity of distributed systems, and partly due to the practical obstacles that de...
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzan...
Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) and Dynamic Power Management (DPM) are two popular techniques commonly employed to save energy in real-time embedded systems. DVS policies aim at red...
Mobile computing platforms in the form of smart phones, netbooks, and personal digital assistants have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Moving ahead to the future, m...
Yongjun Park, Hyunchul Park, Scott A. Mahlke, Sukj...
With an ever growing complexity and data volume, the administration of today's relational database management systems has become one of the most important cost factors in thei...
Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, ...