—Face recognition performance depends upon the input variability as encountered during biometric data capture including occlusion and disguise. The challenge met in this paper is...
—Automatic service and application deployment and management is becoming possible through the use of service and infrastructure discovery and policy systems. But using the infras...
Robert Adams, Ricardo Rivaldo, Guilherme Germoglio...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Management in pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised decision-making functions. It must be devolved, based on local decision-making and feedback contro...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil C. Lupu, Naranker...
The paper presents the main results of the IST FP6 INFRAWEBS project. The project has developed an easy and effective way of constructing and using semantic descriptions for existi...