This paper examines a visual design element unique to situated, hot-spot style, services: locativeness. This is the extent to which the media representing a service relates to its...
Large scale distributed applications such as electronic commerce and online marketplaces combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed r...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioanni...
In this paper, we propose a dynamic QoS, D-QoS, model which allows the QoS requirements be reconfigured dynamically. A privilege user can request a network interruption to guarant...
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
This paper proposes a service-oriented software reliability model that dynamically evaluates the reliability of Web services. There are two kinds of Web services: atomic services ...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Dawei Zhang, Yinong Chen, Hai Huang,...