Efficiency with respect to energy consumption has increasingly been recognized as an important quality attribute for distributed software systems in embedded and pervasive environm...
This paper shows that, in an environment where we do not bound the number of faulty processes, the class P of Perfect failure detectors is the weakest (among realistic failure det...
We present a tool for performance modeling of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). As mission-critical use of whole-ofgovernment SOAs become pervasive, the capability to model a...
Abstract—Resource management is a key challenge that service providers must adequately face in order to ensure their profitability. This paper describes a proof-of-concept frame...
Abstract: This paper introduces a new method for optimally provisioning and pricing differentiated services, that maximizes profit and maintains a small blocking probability. Reso...