In Ubiquitous Computing Environment (UCE), service provider wants to provide its service to only legitimate users. Some users who belong to same service provider do not want to rev...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the level of service that a service provider must deliver. An SLA is a contract between service provider and consumer, and includes appropri...
Tony Chau, Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, El...
Online privacy is an increasingly important problem, as many services are now offered in a digital form. Privacy (or the lack thereof) is of a special concern in subscriptions to ...
A vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is a network of intelligent vehicles that communicate with other vehicles in the network. The main objective of VANET is to provide comfort and ...
Web services are essentially black box components from a composer's or a mediator's perspective. The behavioural description of any service can be asserted by the compos...
This paper examines how service providers may resolve the trade-off between their personalization efforts and users' individual privacy concerns. We analyze how negotiation te...
Network Management Forum (NMF) has defined a set of basic business processes dealing with major TMN service management functions such as performance management, fault management, b...
This paper describes a highly available distributedvideo on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at...
Abstract: Managing services on the Internet is becoming more and more complex and time consuming for service providers since services are increasing both in number and complexity. ...
Ron A. M. Sprenkels, Aiko Pras, Bert-Jan van Beijn...
Abstract— Network service providers contract with network owners for connection rights, then offer individual users network access at a price. Within this hierarchy, the service ...