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 ...
: Clinical Pathways can be viewed as workflows, comprising an ordering of activities with associated execution constraints. Workflow models allow formal representation, analysis an...
We study algorithmic questions concerning a basic microeconomic congestion game in which there is a single provider that offers a service to a set of potential customers. Each cus...
We characterize the dynamic data management problem for location based services(LBS) in mobile environments and devise a cost model for servicing both location independent and loc...
With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available servic...
Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana ...