Twitter, Facebook, and other related systems that we call social awareness streams are rapidly changing the information and communication dynamics of our society. These systems, w...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
This paper presents a control-theoretic approach to reactive flow control in networks that do not reserve bandwidth. We assume a round-robin-like queue service discipline in the o...
—The recent surge of popularity has established Mashups as an important category of Web 2.0 applications. Mashups are essentially Web services that are often created by end-users...
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. ...
Along with the popularity of software-intensive systems, the interactions between system components and between humans and software applications are becoming more and more complex...