Embracing service-oriented architectures in the context of large systems, such as the Web, rises a set of new and challenging issues: increased size and load in terms of users and...
Highly dynamic computing environments, like ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments, require frequent adaptation of applications. Context is a key to adapt suiting user ne...
How can sequential applications benefit from the ubiquitous next generation of chip multiprocessors (CMP)? Part of the answer may be a dynamic execution environment that automatica...
Jisheng Zhao, Matthew Horsnell, Ian Rogers, Andrew...
The proliferation of wireless networks, hand-held PCs, touch panels, large flat displays, sensors, and embedded devices is transforming traditional habitats and living spaces into...
This paper deals with a shared server environment where the server is divided into a number of resource partitions and used to host multiple applications at the same time. In a cas...