Grid computing provides a robust paradigm to aggregate disparate resources in a secure and controlled environment. Grid architectures require an underpinning Quality of Service (Qo...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewsk...
Using the particular example of online banking services, we examine the effects of pricing strategies on the demand for different modes of online banking given that the market exh...
Abstract Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at ...
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars C. Wolf, Ralf S...
This paper presents a methodology and a set of tools for the modelling, validation and testing of Web service composition, conceived and developed within the French national projec...
Ana R. Cavalli, Tien-Dung Cao, Wissam Mallouli, El...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...