Service Oriented Architectures are emerging as the recommended paradigm for developing dispersed escience environments. In this paper we analyze the characteristics and requiremen...
Mobile payment has some unique advantages over more traditional payment methods in, for example, TV shopping and mobile multimedia services. Unfortunately, most existing mobile pa...
—Today, international mobile roaming (IMR) is experiencing changes both in terms of technology and business models. Traditionally, voice and SMS have been the only services offer...
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...
Consider a multiclass stochastic network with state dependent service rates and arrival rates describing bandwidth-sharing mechanisms as well as admission control and/or load bala...