The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Abstract— An important issue for supporting multimedia applications in multiple heterogeneous networks, a typical pervasive computing environment, is how to optimize the rate all...
Liang Zhou, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, Baoyu Zheng, ...
Multi-site scheduling deals with the scheduling problems of an enterprise with several distributed production sites, where sites are using the intermediate products of other sites...
There exist many application classes for which the users have significant flexibility in the quality of output they desire. At the same time, there are other constraints, such a...
Abstract. Business process modeling is a key technology for crossorganizational business process integration. However, current modeling methods always fall short in describing comp...