The Mobile Internet scenario encourages the design and development of context-aware applications that provide results depending on context information, such as the relative positi...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
This paper develops simple cost models for provisioning content distribution networks that use the simple and highly scalable bandwidth skimming protocol for streaming. New insight...
Jussara M. Almeida, Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Fer...
Cloud computing [22] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitat...
We describe a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provis...
- Role provisioning is an essential yet complex aspect of the design of virtual organisations. This paper addresses an even more complex scenario, that of role provisioning in tele...