—It is clear that Cloud computing is and will be a sea change for the Information Technology by changing the way in which both software and hardware are designed and purchased. I...
Genetic algorithms (GAs) share a common weakness with most other metaheuristics: Candidate solutions are in general revisited multiple times, lowering diversity and wasting preciou...
Debugging programs at the source level is essential in the software development cycle. With the growing importance of dynamic optimization, there is a clear need for debugging sup...
Given the increasing investment on information technology (IT) and Web site features, it becomes crucial to measure reliably the impact of these characteristics on the overall qua...
—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most app...