By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
Traditional process support systems offer the promise of software assembled from service elements. The typical approach is a static composition of atomic processes to more powerfu...
End-users of high-performance computing resources have come to expect that consistent levels of performance be delivered to their applications. The advancement of the Computationa...
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
Existing applications often contain security holes that are not patched until after the system has already been compromised. Even when software updates are available, applying the...