The evolution of distributed applications to reflect structural changes or to adapt to specific conditions of the run-time environment is a difficult issue especially if continuou...
Noel De Palma, Sara Bouchenak, Slim Ben Atallah, D...
In modern heterogeneous environments, such as mobile, pervasive and ad-hoc networks, architectures based on web services offer an attractive solution for effective communication a...
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) conveniently complement infrastructure-based networks, allowing mobile nodes to spontaneously form a network and share their services, including br...
- Since many Web applications employ a multi-tier architecture, in this paper, we focus on the problem of analytically modeling the behavior of such applications. We present a mode...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Giovanni Pacifici, Prashant J. S...
— One of the critical challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. One well-known method in economics for increasing th...