In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
This paper describes the results of three studies investigating an embodied agent that supports its interaction with the user by gazing at corresponding objects within its close e...
Johann Schrammel, Arjan Geven, Reinhard Sefelin, M...
In this paper we present FailRank, a novel framework for integrating and ranking information sources that characterize failures in a grid system. After the failing sites have been...
— With the deployment of large, distributed networks of cameras and other sensors, it is becoming necessary to also address the issue of how to effectively present the large vol...
The use of middleware has extended from simply facilitating applications' communication to a broad set of services supporting a huge spectrum of networked and distributed comp...