Wrappers are mechanisms for introducing new behavior that is executed before and/or after, and perhaps even in lieu of, an existing method. This paper examines several ways to impl...
John Brant, Brian Foote, Ralph E. Johnson, Don Rob...
Resource allocation for high-performance real-time applications is challenging due to the applications' data-dependent nature, dynamic changes in their external environment, ...
The dependability of composite services is largely affected by their constituent Web services. Composite services have to operate in an open and dynamically changing environment i...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
Local search algorithms often get trapped in local optima. Algorithms such as tabu search and simulated annealing 'escape' local optima by accepting nonimproving moves. ...
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whi...
In this paper, we discuss two major tradeoffs, spatial and temporal tradeoffs, that appear when applying marketbased computing to multimedia network applications. The former appea...