Abstract— The Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm proposes a new set of transmission protocols and network architectures that permits the high-utilization of the raw bandwidth...
Current approaches to Business Process Management (BPM) and Operational Business Intelligence (BI) integration have been very limited and simply reduced to the problem of technica...
Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distri...
In the last decades, Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has been laid emphasis on digital contents protection and related security policies, mechanisms and implementation....
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...