In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
We have developed an approach for whole-house gross movement and room transition detection through sensing at only one point in the home. We consider this system to be one member o...
Shwetak N. Patel, Matthew S. Reynolds, Gregory D. ...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Mobile Location-Based Services (LBS) have raised privacy concerns amongst mobile phone users who may need to supply their identity and location information to untrustworthy third ...
Thibault Candebat, Cameron Ross Dunne, David T. Gr...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...