In service-based systems, services from various providers can be integrated following specific workflows to achieve users’ goals. These workflows are often executed and coordina...
Stephen S. Yau, Luping Zhu, Dazhi Huang, Haishan G...
A number of research studies show that the operating system has a substantial influence on communication delay in distributed environments. Thus, in order to provide applications w...
There are two cruxes of issues identified in differentiated services (diffserv) networks: One is TCP dynamics over Assured Services, and the other is the interaction of TCP and UDP...
Even as they enjoy impressive growth, one of the major challenges facing providers of online services is a high rate of customer turnover. It has adverse impacts on business perfo...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...