Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...
Despite important advances in Grid computing, scalability and interoperability issues obstruct the integration of the existing isolated grids into the Grid. We propose a worldwide ...
Abstract—Introspection is the prerequisite of an autonomic behavior, the first step towards a performance improvement and a resource-usage optimization for largescale distribute...
Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Jing Cai, Alexandru Costa...
Recently, ubiquitous location-based services (u-LBS) has been utilized in a variety of practical and mission-critical applications such as security services, personalization servic...