In recent years, workflow technology has greatly facilitated business process modeling and reengineering in information systems. On one hand, the separation of an application'...
Even with todays hardware improvements, performance problems are still common in many software systems. An approach to tackle this problem for component-based software architectur...
Scenarios and goals are effective techniques for requirements definition. Goals are objectives that a system has to meet. They are elaborated into a structure that decomposes decla...
In this paper, we discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Si...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Albert G. Greenberg, W...
We present a biologically inspired approach to the dynamic assignment and reassignment of a homogeneous swarm of robots to multiple locations, which is relevant to applications lik...