—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
The increasing usage of smart embedded devices is blurring the line between the virtual and real worlds. This creates new opportunities for applications to better integrate the re...
This paper describes the design, development and qualitative evaluation of a web-based personalized assessment service of an object–oriented programming course at the University...
Abstract. The frameworks for protecting security and privacy can be effective only if common users--with no training in computer science or logic--increase their awareness and cont...
The main memory management has been a critical issue to provide high performance in web cluster systems. To overcome the speed gap between processors and disks, many prefetch sche...