Power management has been a critical issue in the design of embedded systems due to the limited power supply. To prolong the lifetime, energy minimization has been studied under p...
The agent paradigm includes the notion that agents interact with services. This paper identifies the need for controlled access to such services, from the perspective of agent sys...
Benno J. Overeinder, P. D. Verkaik, Frances M. T. ...
Service morphing is a set of techniques used to continuously meet an application’s Quality of Service (QoS) needs, in the presence of run-time variations in service locations, p...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Sandip Agar...
Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
The home network system (HNS, for short) is comprised of networked home appliances, which achieves various value-added services for home users. Assuring safety of the HNS and the ...