We propose and evaluate a novel framework for enforcing global coordination and control policies over message passing software components in enterprise computing environments. This...
This paper addresses the evolution of control strategies for a collective: a set of entities that collectively strives to maximize a global evaluation function that rates the perf...
—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most app...
Abstract At the start of its present term of office in 1997 the UK government published a planning document promising ubiquitous access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) held wit...
Due to the autonomous nature of ISPs, the service level agreement (SLA) offering is currently confined to within a single provider network. In this work, we examine some methods o...