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CAISE
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Network-based Business Process Management: a Discussion on Embedding Business Logic in Communications Networks
Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into reusable process modules. These process modu...
Louis-François Pau, Peter H. M. Vervest
USS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Proactive Surge Protection: A Defense Mechanism for Bandwidth-Based Attacks
Large-scale bandwidth-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can quickly knock out substantial parts of a network before reactive defenses can respond. Even traffic flo...
Jerry Chi-Yuan Chou, Bill Lin, Subhabrata Sen, Oli...
IWDC
2001
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks
— In this paper we show that significant simplicity can be exploited for pricing-based control of large networks. We first consider a general loss network with Poisson arrivals...
Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Software architecture definition for on-demand cloud provisioning
Cloud computing [22] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitat...
Clovis Chapman, Wolfgang Emmerich, Fermín G...