PlanetLab is a global scale platform for experimentation of new networking applications in a real environment. It consists of several nodes, offered by academic institutions or co...
Giovanni Di Stasi, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canon...
The unconstrained quadratic binary program (UQP) is proving to be a successful modeling and solution framework for a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. Experience rep...
Bahram Alidaee, Fred Glover, Gary A. Kochenberger,...
: Evolutionary algorithms are effective search tools for tackling difficult optimization problems. In this paper an algorithm based on living processes where cooperation is the mai...
Elizabeth Ferreira Gouvea Goldbarg, Marco Cé...
Architectural reflection is the computation performed by a software system about its own software architecture. Building on previous research and on practical experience in industr...
Francesco Tisato, Andrea Savigni, Walter Cazzola, ...
We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...