Some types of animals exploit the external environment to support their cognitive processes, in the sense of patterns created in the environment that function as external mental s...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut...
MCT is a widely used heuristic for scheduling tasks onto grid platforms. However, when dealing with many tasks, MCT tends to dramatically delay already mapped task completion time...
Computees are abstractions of the entities that populate global and open computing environments. The societies that they populate give an institutional meaning to their interaction...
Marco Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Pao...
The software architecture of distributed systems is about to change due to new requirements of modern mobile devices. New network techniques, like ad-hoc radio communication or pee...
Wolfgang Beer, Volker Christian, Alois Ferscha, La...
A current trend in the software engineering community is to integrate different tools in a friendly and powerful development environment for use by final users. This is also the c...