When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...
We study the flow control and routing decisions of self-interested users in a general congested network where a single profit-maximizing service provider sets prices for different ...
It is now commonplace for an organization to turn to external firms for the provision of IT services and software. As technology advances and the business environment continues to ...
The rapid growth of the Internet over the last decade has been startling. However, efforts to track its growth have often fallen afoul of bad data -- for instance, how much traffi...
The work described in this paper presents an approach on scheduling in a virtual enterprise in the tourism sector. This scheduling scenario has to reconcile customers' and ser...
While online service providers are sometimes accused of forwarding identifying customer information as name and address to untrusted third parties, comparatively little attention ...
Abstract-- Service discovery enables users to access information, resources and services anytime, anywhere. This involves a client, a service provider and an infrastructure for ser...
Enhancing the service-oriented architecture paradigm with semantic components is a new field of research and goal of many ongoing projects. The results lead to more powerful web a...
To enable a rich attribute-based authorization system, it is desirable that a large number of user attributes are available, possibly provided by multiple entities. The user may b...
— We consider whether the off-line compilation of a set of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) into low-level management policies can lead to the runtime maximization of the overall ...