Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...
This paper presents a context management system for supporting context-aware applications in a smart home. In a ubiquitous computing environment context changes dynamically and th...
This paper compares three common evolutionary algorithms and our modified GA, a Distributed Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (DAGA). The optimal approach is sought to adapt, in near rea...
Thomas F. Clayton, Leena N. Patel, Gareth Leng, Al...
—Virtual machines offer unique advantages to the scientific computing community, such as Quality of Service(QoS) guarantee, performance isolation, easy resource management, and ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze, Ji...
The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...