Abstract. Replication is a fundamental technique for increasing throughput and achieving fault tolerance in distributed data services. However, its implementation may induce signif...
Laurent Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Elaine L....
: This paper describes concepts for using contextual information in an advanced service environment for the support of mobile maintenance processes. We focus on spatio-temporal con...
Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Matthias Benesch, Frank Ber...
In highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments such as mobile and ubiquitous computing, software must be able to adapt at runtime and react to the environment. Furthermore it sho...
In software engineering, graphical formalisms, like state-transition tables and automata, are very often indispensable parts of the specifications. Such a formalism usually leads t...
—Server virtualization opens up a range of new possibilities for autonomic datacenter management, through the availability of new automation mechanisms that can be exploited to c...
Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, David Carrera, I...