Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting distributed applications. With the expanding role of middleware, however, a number of problems are emer...
We presented at HICSS-34 a new methodology based on the semantics of contracts to model business and, beyond, to manage the knowledge assets of a firm. In this paper we present tw...
Aspects sometimes conflict between them in scenarios where they reify resource awareness concerns. These conflicts are the result of the scarcity of resources and the fact that, f...
Effective and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid users and service providers. We introduce Q-GSM, a ...
In this demo, we present three lean methods for real-time adaptation of live MPEG-2 video to limited and varying network bandwidth. Our methods use real-time resource management t...