Abstract— The deployment of converged services of TV, telephony, and Internet access over IP entails a significant initial investment for service providers. This investment is n...
Business applications are facing an increasing demand for being delivered as on-demand services. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a common way for specifying the exact condition...
Wolfgang Theilmann, Ulrich Winkler, Jens Happe, Il...
Finding an efficient configuration for cluster-based multi-tier Internet services is often a difficult task. Moreover, even a good configuration could become obsolete, depending o...
This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented set of applications, namely "Public Information" and "Electronic Voting", to support information services (ex...
Negotiation is a technique for reaching mutually beneficial agreement among autonomous entities. A concurrent negotiation problem occurs when one entity is negotiating simultaneous...