Wireless sensor, actuator networks (WSANs) distinguish themselves from wireless sensor networks by the need to coordinate actuators' actions, real-time constraints on communi...
Abstract. In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that mak...
Surya Nepal, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Julian ...
Abstract Utility Data Center (UDC) provides a exible, coste ective infrastructure to support the hosting of applications for Internet services. In order to enable the design of a \...
Over the last five years, several systems have been proposed to take distribution into account in Aspect-Oriented Programming. While they appeared to be fruitful to develop or im...
In this paper we use the cumulative distribution of a random variable to define the information content in it and use it to develop a novel measure of information that parallels S...