Providing web service replicas improves the overall system performance and redundancy for hardware failures. In Business-to-Business, this may be particularly interesting for orga...
In self-adaptive systems components are dynamically modified according to the execution environment requirement, where each component is a probable point of failure. Existing appr...
— In this paper, we consider time-and-frequency hopping (TFH) codes for optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) networks. To support the differentiated service requirements...
Disasters can cause extraordinary service demand by the public, while concurrently causing outages that reduce network capacity to serve the surging demand. It is imperative that ...
David A. Garbin, Patrick V. McGregor, Denise M. Be...
Abstract. The existing Web service management solutions are almost exclusively focused on optimization of technical QoS metrics (e.g., availability). However, financial (e.g., prof...