—In service-oriented architectures, participants keep interacting by exchanging tasks, in order to increase their benefit. Since carrying out a task incurs costs, and participan...
The Internet is a hierarchical architecture comprising heterogeneous entities of privately owned infrastructures, where higher level Internet service providers (ISPs) supply conne...
Sam C. M. Lee, Joe W. J. Jiang, John C. S. Lui, Da...
Security is a very important issue in information processing, especially in open network environments like the Internet. The Common Criteria (CC) is the standard requirements cata...
Monika Vetterling, Guido Wimmel, Alexander K. Wi&s...
We consider a communication network with fixed routing that can accommodate multiple service classes, differing in bandwidth requirements, demand pattern, call duration, and routin...
Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into reusable process modules. These process modu...