Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
In the past, the selection of resources to execute various warehouse operation services was done solely by experts. In this paper, a RFIDbased Resource Management System (RFID-RMS...
Harry K. H. Chow, King Lun Choy, W. B. Lee, K. C. ...
Abstract. In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that mak...
Surya Nepal, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Julian ...
Abstract. In a hybrid peer-to-peer environment, clients can either directly download data from their server, or share data with each other. In order to create incentives for client...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...