Abstract This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A MultiAgents Home Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in bui...
High-performance computing faces considerable change as the Internet and the Grid mature. Applications that once were tightly-coupled and monolithic are now decentralized, with co...
Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, ...
Software complexity has increased substantially in the last decade. This has made software development teams work faster and under tight budgets. Reusing software can be a way of s...
Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nu...
As ICT services are becoming more ubiquitous and mobile and access technologies grow to be more heterogeneous and complex, we are witnessing the increasing importance of two relat...
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Dario Di Sorte, Mauro Femm...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...