Describing an application as a simple composition of services allows advanced features that exploit different platforms to be conceived e formalized at a high abstraction level. S...
Reasoning on the Web is gaining in importance because of emerging Web applications such as contextadaptive Web systems (e.g. eLearning, recommender, personalised (multi-)media, an...
The notion of application – a single, bounded piece of functionality presented to users – goes almost unquestioned. However in the context of highly adaptive and ambient system...
: Grids provide uniform access to aggregations of heterogeneous resources and services such as computers, networks and storage owned by multiple organizations. However, such a dyna...
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...