: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....
— This paper presents a novel approach for visual scene modeling and classification, investigating the combined use of text modeling methods and local invariant features. Our wo...
Pedro Quelhas, Florent Monay, Jean-Marc Odobez, Da...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...
In this paper, we study the problem of finding optimal mappings for several independent but concurrent workflow applications, in order to optimize performance-related criteria tog...