Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs offered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Due to significant improvements in the capabilities of small devices such as PDAs and smart phones, these devices can not only consume but also provide Web Services. The dynamic n...
Luke Albert Steller, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Mohamed...
Abstract--If we are to deploy sensor applications in a realistic business context, we must provide innovative middleware services to control and enforce required system behavior; i...
This paper describes a United States Air Force Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) that applied value-based scheduling to produce an adaptive, distributed tracking component ap...
Raymond K. Clark, E. Douglas Jensen, Arkady Kanevs...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...