Service-Oriented Computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different providers. In several cases a service needs sensitive in...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
Goals are often used to represent stakeholder’s objectives. The intentionality inherited by a goal drives stakeholders to pursuit the fulfillment of their goals either by themse...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizz...
This paper envisions a distributed network storage service with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees, and describes its architecture and key mechanisms. When fully realized, this se...