Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers’ facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to ...
Abstract This paper proposes efficient resource allocation techniques for a policy-based wireless/wireline interworking architecture, where quality of service (QoS) provisioning an...
Yu Cheng, Wei Song, Weihua Zhuang, Alberto Leon-Ga...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
One vision of a context-aware pervasive networking environment promises the user a seamless access to surrounding services using her personal mobile device. This requires that the...