Abstract. The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptable. A way t...
: Business information systems provide computer support for decision making across huge data sets. Smart Items are miniaturized computer and sensing systems embedded into physical ...
Christian Decker, Clemens van Dinther, Jens Mü...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
Hardware agents as a part of cooperative multi-agent systems act in dynamically changing environments and accomplish tasks jointly. Since the pure hybrid plan representation provid...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...