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ICSOC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
Most web services need to be contracted through service level agreements that typically specify a certain quality of service (QoS) in return for a certain price. We propose a new f...
GI
2001
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
2001
Springer
Abstract: This paper introduces a new method for optimally provisioning and pricing differentiated services, that maximizes profit and maintains a small blocking probability. Reso...
GPC
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
DSS
2000
13 years 7 months ago
2000
This paper studies the quality of service (QoS) provision problem in noncooperative networks where applications or users are sel sh and routers implement generalized processor sha...
DASFAA
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Protection of users’ privacy has been a central issue for location-based services (LBSs). In this paper, we classify two kinds of privacy protection requirements in LBS: location...