— Current presence systems offer only basic services that are mostly useful for dial-up environments, while event services have not seen widespread deployment. We describe the SI...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exploit the acute imbalance between client and server workloads to cause devastation to the service providers. We propose a distribute...
David Mankins, Rajesh Krishnan, Ceilyn Boyd, John ...
The prevalent nature of Internet makes it a well suitable medium for many new types of services such as location-based services and streaming content. Subscribers to such services ...
A general consensus is that the proliferation of locationaware devices will result in a diffusion of location-based services. Privacy preservation is a challenging research issue ...
Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...