During the past decades scheduling has been among the most studied op- mization problemsanditisstillanactiveareaofresearch Schedulingappears in many areas of science, engineering and industry and takes di?erent forms depending on the restrictions and optimization criteria of the operating en- ronments 8]. For instance, in optimization and computer science, scheduling has been de?ned as "the allocation of tasks to resources over time in order to achieve optimality in one or more objective criteria in an e?cient way" and in production as "production schedule, i. e., the planning of the...
During the past decades scheduling has been among the most studied op- mization problemsanditisstillanactiveareaofresearch Schedulingappears in many a...
Current companies and communities of practice are involved in intensive networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of electronic relations and collaborative interactions. This has resulted in entangled systems that need to be managed efficiently and in an autonomous way, thus facing many issues and challenges.
The extensive research produced in this book will help virtual organizations to exploit latest and powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless infrastructures as well as Cloud computing in order to alleviate complex issues and challenges arisen in networking...
Current companies and communities of practice are involved in intensive networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of electronic relat...
With the rapid expansion of the Internet over the last 20 years, event-based distributed systems are playing an increasingly important role in a broad range of application domains, including enterprise management, environmental monitoring, information dissemination, finance, pervasive systems, autonomic computing, collaborative working and learning, and geo-spatial systems. Many different architectures, languages and technologies are being used for implementing event-based distributed systems, and much of the development has been undertaken independently by different communities. However, a...
With the rapid expansion of the Internet over the last 20 years, event-based distributed systems are playing an increasingly important role in a broad...
Fatos Xhafa, Santi Caballé, Ajith Abraham, Thanasis Daradoumis, Angel A. Juan
E-Learning has become one of the most wide spread ways of distance teaching and learning. Technologies such as Web, Grid, and Mobile and Wireless networks are pushing teaching and learning communities to find new and intelligent ways of using these technologies to enhance teaching and learning activities. Indeed, these new technologies can play an important role in increasing the support to teachers and learners, to shorten the time to learning and teaching; yet, it is necessary to use intelligent techniques to take advantage of these new technologies to achieve the desired support to...
E-Learning has become one of the most wide spread ways of distance teaching and learning. Technologies such as Web, Grid, and Mobile and Wireless netw...
Nik Bessis, Fatos Xhafa, Dora Varvarigou, Richard Hill, Maozhen Li
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed unprecedented innovations in the development of miniaturized electromechanical devices and low-power wireless communication making practical the embedding of networked computational devices into a rapidly widening range of material entities. This trend has enabled the coupling of physical objects and digital information into cyber-physical systems and it is widely expected to revolutionize the way resource computational consumption and provision will occur. Specifically, one of the core ingredients of this vision, the so-called Internet of...
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed unprecedented innovations in the development of miniaturized electromechanical devices and low-power w...
