This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Abstract—Interactive TCP applications, such as Telnet and the Web, are particularly sensitive to network congestion. Indeed, congestion-induced queuing and packet loss can be a s...
The success of the Web and of portable devices has made popular the idea that any information could be made available to anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Other paradigms are taking...
The Semantic Web is still a web, a collection of linked nodes. Navigation of links is currently, and will remain for humans if not machines, a key mechanism for exploring the spac...
Carole A. Goble, Sean Bechhofer, Les Carr, David D...
Transaction time is the time of a database transaction, i.e., an insertion, update, or deletion. A transactiontime database stores the transaction-time history of a database and s...