Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...
Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...
This paper introduces a lightweight, scalable and accurate framework, called Meridian, for performing node selection based on network location. The framework consists of an overla...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...