— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Abstract—In this paper, we address the problem of selfadaptation in internet-scale service-oriented systems. Services need to adapt by select the best neighboring services solely...
With the advent of web services standards and a serviceoriented Grid architecture, it is foreseeable that competing as well as complimenting computational services will proliferat...
The proliferation of heterogeneous devices and diverse networking technologies demands flexible models to guarantee the quality-of-service(QoS) at the application session level, ...