Future integrated services networks will need to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia applications. To ensure that the contracted QoS is sustained, it is not ...
Abstract: In the next generation optical internet, GMPLSbased IP-over-optical networks, ISPs will be required to support a wide variety of applications each having their own requir...
David Harle, Saud Albarrak, Fuead Ali, Anna Urra, ...
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...
A critical challenge to creating effective open multi-agent systems is allowing them to operate effectively in the face of potential failures. In this paper we present an experimen...
The high competition among network providers places a demand for new ways to design network services with near zero development time, low cost, and high degrees of customization an...