Software systems dealing with distributed applications in changing environments normally
require human supervision to continue operation in all conditions. These (re-) configuring …

Following considerable research into quality-of-service-aware application programming
interface design and QoS specification language development for multimedia systems, we …

In recent years, much of the discussion involving “smart grids” has implicitly involved only
the distribution side, notably advanced metering. However, today's electric systems have …

Existing research work towards the composition of complex federated services has assumed
that service requests and deliveries flow through a particular service path or tree. Here, we …

Writing boilerplate code is a royal pain. Generic programming promises to alleviate this pain
by allowing the programmer to write a generic" recipe" for boilerplate code, and use that …

Most distributed applications are brittle; they work in a limited environment and cannot adapt
to changes in this environment. Making these applications less brittle is a complex …

Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed
applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to …

In this paper, we introduce an XML-based hierarchical QoS markup language, called HQML,
to enhance distributed multimedia applications on the World Wide Web (WWW) with quality …

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware technologies, such as The Object
Management Group (OMG)'s Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)[28] …

Recent work in opening up distributed object systems to make them suitable for applications
needing quality of service control has had the side effect of increasing the complexity in …