The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud c...
Basic approaches to computer lab management range along a spectrum from total lockdown of lab computers to total freedom. Total lockdown, which can be implemented with system perm...
Concurrency control mechanisms such as turn-taking, locking, serialization, transactional locking mechanism, and operational transformation try to provide data consistency when con...
Amir R. Razavi, Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Paul J. Kra...
Policy-based management provides the ability to (re-)configure differentiated services networks so that desired Quality of Service (QoS) goals are achieved. Relevant configuration...
Marinos Charalambides, Paris Flegkas, George Pavlo...
Electronic commerce applications (e-commerce) need connecting technologies to support the external, agreed-upon or flexible business processes. This requires a specification of th...