Abstract—Complex networks consisting of humans and software services, such as Web-based social and collaborative environments, typically require flexible and context-based inter...
Abstract - Recent advances in multimedia network systems have led to the development of a new generation of applications that associate the use of various multimedia objects. The c...
The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptive. In order to ach...
Ayla Dantas, Joseph W. Yoder, Paulo Borba, Ralph E...
The dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Architectures challenges traditional systems management practices which tend to be static in nature. We propose a goal-oriented, agent-based...
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Imad Abdallah, Jun L...
The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...