The appropriate deployment of web service operations at the service provider site plays a critical role in the efficient provision of services to clients. In this paper, we assume...
: Service processes are becoming increasingly essential in modern economies as traditional, production-oriented industries decline. When comparing service processes to standard bus...
With the explosive growth of demand for services on the Internet, the networking infrastructure (routers, protocols, servers) is under considerable stress. Mechanisms are needed f...
Besides the conclusion of agreements about quality of service (QoS), one of the major prerequisites for a global service market are means to monitor the fulfillment of those agreem...
We consider an electricity consumer equipped with a perfect battery, who needs to satisfy a non-elastic load, subject to external control signals. The control imposes a time-varyin...