With the advent of cloud computing, organizations are nowadays able to react rapidly to
changing demands for computational resources. Not only individual applications can be …

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

Future software systems will operate in a highly dynamic world. Systems will need to operate
correctly despite of unespected changes in factors such as environmental conditions, user …

Architecting software systems according to the service-oriented paradigm and designing
runtime self-adaptable systems are two relevant research areas in today's software …

Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a service-oriented system to meet QoS
requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodology …

The problem of composing services to deliver integrated business solutions has been widely
studied in the last years. Besides addressing functional requirements, services compositions …

A growing number of business and safety-critical services are delivered by computer
systems designed to reconfigure in response to changes in workloads, requirements and …

We present a robust approach to estimate the 3D pose of human heads in a single image. In
contrast with other research, this method only makes use of the information about the skin …

We present a tool-supported framework for the engineering of service-based systems
(SBSs) capable of self-verifying their compliance with developer-specified reliability …

Abstract Models play a central role in software engineering. They may be used to reason
about requirements, to identify possible missing parts or conflicts. They may be used at …