: Fair exchange protocols play an important role in application areas such as e-commerce where protocol participants require mutual guarantees that a transaction involving exchange...
We present a multi-dimensional database model, which we believe can serve as a conceptual model for On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)-based applications. Apart from providing t...
With the move to distributed, component based systems involving reuse of components and services, emergent, system-wide properties, including safety and security in particular, are...
—Advances in Cloud computing enable new possibilities to Internet applications developers. Previously, the main concern of Internet applications developers was deployment and hos...
Bhathiya Wickremasinghe, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Raj...
Autonomic computing – self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing applications, systems and networks – is widely believed to be a promising solution to everincreasing syst...
Gail E. Kaiser, Janak J. Parekh, Philip Gross, Giu...