As the use of virtualization and partitioning grows, it becomes possible to deploy a multi-tier web-based application with a variable amount of computing power. This introduces th...
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are complex systems whose manageability is increasingly becoming a real concern. Realizing that expert Database Administrators (DBAs) are scarc...
Said Elnaffar, Wendy Powley, Darcy G. Benoit, T. P...
Autonomic computing is a grand-challenge vision of the future in which computing systems will manage themselves in accordance with high-level objectives specified by humans. The I...
This paper is concerned with merging globally rigid formations of mobile autonomous agents. A key element in all future multi-agent systems will be the role of sensor and communic...
Tolga Eren, Brian D. O. Anderson, Walter Whiteley,...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are severely constrained in computation and communication capabilities due to the cost and size of available sensors. On the other hand, autonomic ...