A pattern is considered useful if it can be used to help a person to achieve his goal. Mining data streams for useful patterns is important in many applications. However, data stre...
Service-based systems are distributed computing systems with the major advantage of enabling rapid composition of distributed applications, such as collaborative research and deve...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...
Service-oriented architectures and Web service infrastructure provide the ideal framework for interconnecting organizations and for defining distributed business applications. The...
Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...