In this paper, we present a constraint-based approach for selecting and deploying active network components, called proxylets, which execute on servers within the network to perfo...
: The ongoing trend towards a global services economy creates considerable market opportunities and challenges for providers of Software-as-aService (SaaS). For meeting customer ex...
BoPi is a programming language with a runtime support that allows the distribution and the execution of programs over the network. The language is a process calculus with XML valu...
Future integrated services networks will need to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia applications. To ensure that the contracted QoS is sustained, it is not ...
Abstract—Service requests are the origin of every service provisioning process and therefore the entities to be considered first. Similar to Physics and Engineering Sciences, ser...