The increasing number of competitors and the growing traffic demand are the main factors pushing for a more dynamic and flexible service demand allocation mechanism. Human interac...
Abstract. Large-scale Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems with high storage and high bandwidth requirements need a substantial amount of resources to store, distribute and transport all ...
Enabling a sophisticated Demand Response (DR) framework, whereby individual consumers adapt their electricity consumption in response to price variations, is a major objective of ...
– The philosophy of Kanban is that parts and materials should be supplied at the very moment they are needed in the factory manufacturing process. e-based inter-enterprise supply...
The increasing diffusion of mobile computing and of portable devices with wireless connectivity identifies new challenging scenarios for service provisioning. The access from devi...