Abstract- Procurement, i.e., the process of obtaining materials or services and managing their inflow into organizations, is a critical process in supply chain management. Internet...
Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise bu...
As the Internet transforms from the traditional best-effort service network into QoS-capable multi-service network, it is essential to have new architectural design and appropriate...
Dapeng Wu, Yiwei Thomas Hou, Takeo Hamada, Zhi-Li ...
The need for service providers to offer SLAs to gain consumers confidence has become increasingly apparent. Our work focuses on providers who manage the execution of long-running d...
Daniel Spaven, Madhavi Rani, Sumit Kumar Bose, Mik...
: The Internet is experiencing an overwhelming growth that will have a negative impact on its performance and quality of service. In this paper we describe a new architecture that ...
Juan Carlos Diaz y Carballo, Alan Dearle, Richard ...