Abstract. This paper presents some important directions in the use of ontologybased semantics in achieving the vision of Autonomic Communications. We examine the requirements of Au...
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Kevin Carey, Thanassis ...
— Systems are more and more expected to work in dynamic environment, to deal with fluctuation of their characteristics and to guaranty functional and nonfunctional requirements. ...
Abstract. In indoor context awareness applications the location of people, devices or objects is often required. Ultrasound technology enables high resolution indoor position measu...
Esko O. Dijk, Kees van Berkel, Ronald M. Aarts, Ev...
Query optimization is used frequently in relational database management systems. Most existing techniques are based on reordering the relational operators, where the most selective...
Grid applications must increasingly self-adapt dynamically to changing environments. In most cases, adaptation has been implemented in an ad hoc fashion, on a perapplication basis...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl,...