Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions (ICA) have been getting increasing attention both from researchers and in practice as they can increase efficiency of complex markets with substi...
This paper explores the process of validation for the syntax of a graphical notation. We define a unified specification for five of the UML diagrams used by the Discovery Method a...
We develop the theme of an earlier paper [3], namely that security protocols for pervasive computing frequently need to exploit empirical channels and that the latter can be classi...
Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Richard Harrison,...
In this paper we present an approach for QoS management that can be applied to a general class of real-time distributed computation systems. In the proposed approach a switching h...
Sherif Abdelwahed, Sandeep Neema, Joseph P. Loyall...