To deliver 3-tier applications as a Service in the Cloud state-related constraints crossing
Infrastructure-and Software as a Service boundaries need to be managed. By automating …

On April 21st, 2011, a major outage occurred in Amazon's US east coast data center which
led to significant disruptions on customer services. The root cause of the outage was an IT …

Proper management of Information Technology (IT) resources and services has become
imperative for the success of modern organizations. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) …

Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to IT infrastructure and services to …

Planning is a fundamental sub-process of the overarching Information Technology (IT)
change management process, proposed by the Information Technology Infrastructure …

Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to networks and services to minimize …

Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to networks and services to satisfy …

We propose a novel hybrid planning approach for the automated generation of IT change
plans. The algorithm addresses an abstraction mismatch between refinement of tasks and …

The main goal of change management is to ensure that standardized methods and
procedures are used for the efficient and prompt handling of changes in IT systems, in order …

This paper presents a powerful tool designed to extract characteristic lines, called 3D thin
nets, from 3D volumetric images. 3D thin nets are the lines where the 3D grey level function …