Quality of service of e-commerce sites has been usually managed by the allocation of resources such as processors, disks, and network bandwidth, and by tracking conventional perfo...
In the Grid computing model a remote service is provided by a resource owner to a client. The resource owner executes a client job and charges the client for a corresponding fee. I...
Luigi Catuogno, Pompeo Faruolo, Umberto Ferraro Pe...
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...
Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
New currency recirculation guidelines implemented by the Federal Reserve System (Fed) of the United States are intended to reduce the overuse of its currency processing services b...
H. Neil Geismar, Milind Dawande, Divakar Rajamani,...