Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the
purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In its early days it was criticised as …

Many times we are faced with the proliferation of definitions, concepts, languages, and tools
in certain (research) topics. But often there is a gap between what is provided by existing …

Key frame extraction has been recognized as one of the important research issues in video
information retrieval. Although progress has been made in key frame extraction, the existing …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

The variability of a product line is typically defined in models. However, many existing
variability modeling approaches are rigid and don't allow sufficient domain-specific …

Our approach to creating self-healing systems is based on software architecture, where
repairs are done at the level of a software system's components and connectors. In our …

Self-adaptive software systems are capable of adjusting their behavior at runtime to achieve
certain functional or quality-of-service goals. Often a representation that reflects the internal …

Three image databases of handwritten isolated numerals of three different Indian scripts
namely Devnagari, Bangla and Oriya are described in this paper. Grayscale images of …

Cloud computing [23] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud
computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate …

Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the
interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is …