Currently, Web services are available on Internet in a simple and easy way to use. However, a single service can not respond to a predetermined request by user. Thus, it is necessa...
Recent advances in storage and communication technologies have spurred a strong interest in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. Providing the customers of VOD servers with time of serv...
The explosive growth of new multimedia services over the Internet necessitates efficient network management. Improved network management systems are expected to simultaneously prov...
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. The exis...
Ayomi Bandara, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure, Tim...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...