—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...
sequence content at an abstract level and offers novel ways to examine the information contained in them. Our approach is an information theoretic search process which uses patter...
In this paper, we present a comprehensive study on the threats towards the coordination services for Web services business activities and explore the most optimal solution to miti...
Divisible Load Theory (DLT) is an established mathematical framework to study Divisible Load Scheduling (DLS). However, traditional DLT does not comprehensively deal with the sche...
– In this paper, we present a comprehensive study on the design of secure and survivable wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Our goal is to develop a framework that provides both se...