— The current internet infrastructure is facing a number of limitations that is not suitable to meet the growing number of services and users. In particular, one aspect that requ...
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Julien...
Mobile devices are configured with one or more wireless cards that provide limited radio-range and unreliable transmission. These energy-constrained devices are configured with ...
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...
Growth in the IT outsourcing industry during the past ten years has been exceptional. In this study, we theorize about and analyze the growth patterns of IT outsourcing at the leve...
Kunsoo Han, Robert J. Kauffman, Arti Mann, Barrie ...
We propose that the trust an agent places in another agent declaratively captures an architectural connector between the two agents. We formulate trust as a generic modality expre...