In service-oriented environments, the fluidity of the marketplace introduces changes in service offerings and subsequent connection failures for users still bound to outdated serv...
M. Brian Blake, Amy Lynn Sliva, Michael zur Muehle...
In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is t...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda, Huibo H. Ma, Anne H...
Although recent advances in theory indicate that burstiness in the service time process can be handled effectively by queueing models (e.g., MAP queueing networks [2]), there is a...
Due to the rapid acceptance of web services and its fast spreading, a number of mission-critical systems will be deployed as web services in next years. The availability of those ...
Jorge Salas, Francisco Perez-Sorrosal, Marta Pati&...