In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Increased market dynamics, shorter product lifecycles and a higher customer involvement in product design have caused great changes to competitive conditions and many companies ar...
Thomas Knothe, Timo Kahl, Dieter Boell, Kristof Sc...
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) typically result from accidents in which the head strikes an object. Among all traumatic causes of death, the TBI is the most serious one. Moreover,...
Peter Brezany, A. Min Tjoa, Martin Rusnak, Jarmila...
In a competitive environment, companies continuously innovate to offer superior services at lower costs. `Shared services' have been extensively adopted in practice as one me...
Suraya Miskon, Wasana Bandara, Erwin Fielt, Guy G....