In the everyday business world, the sourcing process of multiple goods and services usually involves complex negotiations (via telephone, fax, etc) that include discussion of prod...
In the world of pervasive computing where large management systems, as well as small devices, all become interconnected, the problem of the configuration and management of network...
Mobile phones are set to become the universal interface to online services and cloud computing applications. However, using them for this purpose today is limited to two configura...
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— With the advent of service sensitive applications such as remote controlled experiments, time constrained massive data transfers, and video-conferencing, it has become apparent...
Chin Guok, David W. Robertson, Mary R. Thompson, J...
Advances in server, network, and storage virtualization are enabling the creation of resource pools of servers that permit multiple application workloads to share each server in t...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alf...