In today’s IT service market customers urge providers to grant guarantees for quality of service (QoS) which are laid down in Service Level Agreements (SLAs). To satisfy custome...
Virtually every Internet user on the planet uses the powerful free tools offered by a handful of information service providers in many aspects of their personal and professional l...
Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service su...
Abstract— This paper describes the implementation and deployment of a novel architecture for a metropolitan open wireless access network, shared among different service providers...
This paper proposes techniques to query encrypted XML documents. Such a problem predominantly occurs in “Database as a Service” (DAS) architectures, where a client may outsour...
— We consider a set of computer resources used by a service provider to host enterprise applications subject to service level agreements. We present an approach for resource opti...
Database outsourcing is an important emerging trend which involves data owners delegating their data management needs to an external service provider. Since a service provider is a...
Outsourcing association rule mining to an outside service provider brings several important benefits to the data owner. These include (i) relief from the high mining cost, (ii) m...
Wai Kit Wong, David W. Cheung, Edward Hung, Ben Ka...
Abstract. Location privacy is of utmost concern for location-based services. It is the property that a person’s location is revealed to other entities, such as a service provider...
Web based data services are very popular with the average computer user. Examples of such services include Gmail.com, Yahoo Photos, Yahoo Briefcase and Amazon S3 Service. In such ...