In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
In context-aware computing, distributed information about entities, such as people, places and objects, is captured and made available to applications, which utilize this context....
Finding an efficient configuration for cluster-based multi-tier Internet services is often a difficult task. Moreover, even a good configuration could become obsolete, depending o...
This paper details the implementation of a software framework that aids the development of distributed and self-configurable software systems. This framework is an instance of a n...
David Lillis, Rem W. Collier, Mauro Dragone, Grego...
Combining simulations of different scale in one application is non-trivial issue. This paper proposes solution that supports complex time interactions that can appear between elem...