Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developer...
Transmission of high quality video over the Internet faces many challanges including unpredictable packet loss characteristics of the current Internet and the heterogeneity of rec...
With the widespread of Web Services (WS), more deployed services are being registered into a services registry, consequently giving rise to a series of problems. A conspicuous one...
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...