Abstract--Service-Oriented Architectures address the development of distributed and dynamic service-based applications. Due to the dynamics of their environments, services should b...
Andre Lage Freitas, Jean-Louis Pazat, Nikos Parlav...
Abstract. A Virtual Organisation (VO) is a temporary alliance of autonomous, diverse, and geographically dispersed organisations, where the participants pool resources, information...
Development of portable network-aware applications demands an interface to the network that allows an application to obtain information about its execution environment. This paper...
Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Dean Sutherland, Tho...
Differentiated quality of service is a way for a website operator to provide different service levels to its clients. Traditional HTTP request scheduling schemes can achieve this,...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...