Designing component-based application that meets performance requirements remains a challenging problem, and usually requires a prototype to be constructed to benchmark performanc...
To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
In this paper, we tackle challenges in migrating enterprise services into hybrid cloud-based deployments, where enterprise operations are partly hosted on-premise and partly in th...
Mohammad Y. Hajjat, Xin Sun, Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Dav...
Service providers like Google and Amazon are moving into the SaaS (Software as a Service) business. They turn their huge infrastructure into a cloud-computing environment and aggr...
Wai Kit Wong, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos...
In this paper, we consider the Grand Challenge under a very specific perspective: the enabling of application experts without programming knowledge to reliably model their busines...