Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Information retrieval experimentation generally proceeds in a cycle of development, evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Ideally, the evaluation and testing phases should be short ...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms for eventbased distributed systems often provide many configurable policies that affect end-to-end quality of service (QoS). Altho...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
Mobile B2E-applications (business-to-employee) can add significant value to a company's business, when large workforce divisions are involved in the execution of certain busi...