— In service-oriented environments, reputation-based service selection is gaining increasing prominence. We propose in this paper a social network-based approach to model and ana...
Abstract—Wireless mesh network (WMN) has emerged recently as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networking. In WMN, it is important to provide an efficient hand...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
A service provisioning system is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer different types of services to paying customers. A customer is charged for the execution of ...
Michele Mazzucco, Isi Mitrani, Mike Fisher, Paul M...
gn process of embedded systems moves currently towards higher levels of abstraction. As a consequence, a need arises for an early and realistic assessment of system level design d...