Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...
The advent of the internet is revolutionizing the financial services industry. In the future, electronic banking (EB) will become a strategic factor, evolving from mere transaction...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
After decades of expansion, Internet became an essential tool useful for professionals and private individuals providing a large range of services like emailing, management of ban...