In the same way that the Web has evolved from being a technology designed to aid scientific collaboration to one which is employed extensively in e-business and increasingly in e-...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
Pervasive computing, the new computing paradigm aiming at providing services anywhere at anytime, poses great challenges on dynamic service composition. Existing service compositi...
In distributed admission control (AC) schemes, handling concurrent AC decisions assumes a relevant role in avoiding over or false acceptance and, consequently, service quality degr...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...