With the rapid growth of the Internet and pervasive computing activities, the migration of back-end legacy systems to network centric environments has become a focal point for res...
Due to recent large-scale deployments of delay and losssensitive applications, there are increasingly stringent demands on the monitoring of service level agreement metrics. Altho...
Tongqing Qiu, Jian Ni, Hao Wang, Nan Hua, Yang Ric...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
The prevailing model for digital preservation is that archives should be similar to a “fortress”: a large, protective infrastructure built to defend a relatively small collect...