This work presents the core ideas for an approach that enables index tuning with no human intervention at all. SQL statements submitted to the database are monitored and indices a...
In this chapter, we present some of the biologically-inspired approaches, developed within the context of the European project BIONETS for enabling autonomic pervasive computing en...
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are currently widely used for the development of open, large-scale interoperable systems. In those sys...
Service composition aims to provide an efficient and accurate model of a service, based on which the global service oriented architecture (SOA) can be realized, allowing value add...