This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
Abstract—This paper presents a new upper bound on the endto-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of channel-assisted amplifyand-forward (AF) multi-hop relay networks. The harmonic mea...
Abstract— Today’s middleware applications tend to be complicated, and consist of tiers that form a nested chain of objects or processes. For a real-time nested application, pre...
Storing data according to the multidimensional model, in particular following star schemas, has demonstrated to be one of the most adequate forms to ease the exploration of data. ...
In this paper we initiate the study of discrete random variables over domains. Our work is inspired by work of Daniele Varacca, who devised indexed valuations as models of probabi...