The WS-Policy framework has been introduced to allow policy to be expressed and associated with Web Services thereby enabling organizations to manage the quality of their services...
Tan Phan, Jun Han, Jean-Guy Schneider, Tim Ebringe...
HARC—the Highly-Available Resource Co-allocator—is an open-source system for reserving multiple resources in a coordinated fashion. HARC can handle different types of resource...
Abstract. Privacy issues are a major burden for the acceptance of pervasive applications. They may ultimately result in the rejection of new services despite their functional beneï...
Complex applications, in particular Web applications, deal with a myriad of different concerns and some of them affect several others. The result is that these crosscutting concer...
Silvia E. Gordillo, Gustavo Rossi, Ana Moreira, Jo...
Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...