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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems
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...
Linlin Wu, Rajkumar Buyya
PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated
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. ...
TPDS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—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...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
DIM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Pseudonym management using mediated identity-based cryptography
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...
ESWS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Optimally Distributing Interactions Between Composed Semantic Web Services
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
Ion Constantinescu, Walter Binder, Boi Faltings