Two important performance metrics in collaborative systems are local and remote response times. Previous analytical and simulation work has shown that these response times depend ...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...
- Role provisioning is an essential yet complex aspect of the design of virtual organisations. This paper addresses an even more complex scenario, that of role provisioning in tele...
Complex distributed Internet services form the basis not only of e-commerce but increasingly of mission-critical networkbased applications. What is new is that the workload and in...
Sleep-wake protocols are critical in sensor networks to ensure long-lived operation. However, an open problem is how to develop efficient mechanisms that can be incorporated with ...