Nowadays, systems often integrate a variety of applications whose service requirements are heterogeneous. Consequently, systems must be able to concurrently serve applications whi...
In context-aware computing, distributed information about entities, such as people, places and objects, is captured and made available to applications, which utilize this context....
Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...
— In recent years, IP based Virtual Private Networks (IP-VPNs) which enables enterprises to dynamically create and manage privately owned virtual networks over the public network...