Excellent production design and planning depends on accurate simulation of a high quality layout. A good layout project will always begin with an analysis of the production volume...
Relative fitness, or “evaluation by tests” is one of the building blocks of coevolution: the only fitness information available is a comparison with other individuals in a p...
Scientists increasingly rely on the execution of workflows in grids to obtain results from complex mixtures of applications. However, the inherently dynamic nature of grid workflo...
There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...