— Service creation by composing existing services and/or network resources is considered by Telecom and Internet industries as the trend for service provisioning in Next Generati...
Many network applications that require Quality-ofService QoS support, such as transmission of digital voice and video, tolerate a certain level of service degradation. In this s...
: We describe a method to find low cost shift schedules with a time-varying service level that is always above a specified minimum. Most previous approaches used a two-step procedu...
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
— Telemedicine, distance learning and e-commerce applications impose time constraints directly related to the efficacy of their operations. In order to offer reliability levels ...
Lucas S. Casagrande, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, R...