Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs offered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Notwithstanding the limited commercial success of the first narrowband Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems, the interest of the scientific community in this type of systems ...
Mobile Location-Based Services (LBS) have raised privacy concerns amongst mobile phone users who may need to supply their identity and location information to untrustworthy third ...
Thibault Candebat, Cameron Ross Dunne, David T. Gr...
The applications in many scientific fields, like bioinformatics and high-energy physics etc, increasingly demand the computing infrastructures can provide more computing power and...
Xiaohui Wei, Zhaohui Ding, Wilfred W. Li, Osamu Ta...
The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...