Discovery of service providers that are useful to service requesters is a common problem in large, dynamic serviceoriented systems, such as Grids. Simple service indices do not ad...
— Pervasive computing is a new and emerging technology. The concept of pervasiveness and its deployment into reality are still not well aligned. This is because the vision of per...
Fiona Mahon, Jelena Mitic, Micheal Crotty, Kevin D...
Grid services have tremendously simplified the programming challenges in leveraging large-scale distributed comAt the same time, the increased level of abstraction reduces the op...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
For improved flexibility and concurrent usage existing transaction management models for Web services relax the isolation property of Web service-based transactions. Correctness o...
Mohammad Alrifai, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Peter Dolog, Wo...
Many service providers distribute various kinds of content over the Internet. They often use replica servers to provide stable service. To position them appropriately, service pro...
Abstract— WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a promising technology for last-mile broadband Internet access. In multiservice WiMAX networks, call admissio...
In a mobile ubiquitous environment, service interactions between a user device and a service provider should be secure, regardless of the type of device used to access or consume ...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...