The rapidly increasing traffic demand from mobile users forces network operators and service providers to extend and optimize existing networks as well as to plan entirely new mo...
Abstract— We develop an economic model for networks offering tiered services and we formulate the problem of selecting the service tiers from three perspectives: one that conside...
Bulk-arrival queues with single servers that provide bulk service are widespread in the real world, e.g., elevators in buildings, people-movers in amusement parks, air-cargo deliv...
This paper studies the dynamic Web service selection problem in a failure-prone environment, which aims to determine a subset of Web services to be invoked at runtime so as to succ...
The majority of SMEs have neither the internal expertise nor financial resources to enable in-house development of e-business and therefore turn to the services of website design ...