Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...
There has been a growing interest in the use of wireless mesh networks. Today's wireless technology enables very high data rate up to hundreds of Megabits per second, which c...
Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...
Providing differentiated Quality of Service (QoS) over unreliable wireless channels is an important challenge for supporting several future applications. We analyze a model that h...
The advent of Grid environments made feasible the solution of computational intensive problems in a reliable and cost-effective way. As workflow systems carry out more complex and...