—Personal data is a valuable asset for service providers. To collect such data, free services are offered to users, for whom the risk of loosing privacy by subscribing to a servi...
Harold van Heerde, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Nicolas An...
The IP multicast has not been widely used by current internet service operators, and part of this relates to the nature of multicast, which is designed to allow any host to receiv...
In this paper we introduce a new model for the definition and the implementation of quality of service (QoS) in distributed multimedia systems. The model provides both the users an...
Athanasios G. Malamos, Elias N. Malamas, Theodora ...
Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have become the de facto standard for designing distributed and loosely coupled applications. Many servicebased applications de...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
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...