Still most of the current information systems are intra-organizational. Since products, services and production processes have become more information intensive, there is an increa...
As Grids are emerging as the next-generation computing platform, the need for Web-based portals that hide low level details of accessing Grid services for deployment and execution ...
A hierarchical modeling framework for the dependability evaluation of Internet-based applications is presented and illustrated on a travel agency example. Modeling is carried out ...
The current implementation of out-of-band control in ATM networks inhibits their successful exploitation. The confusion in signalling protocols between application services and th...
The usage of network resources by content providers is commonly governed by Service Level Agreements (SLA) between the content provider and the network service provider. Resource ...