In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is t...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda, Huibo H. Ma, Anne H...
Although recent advances in theory indicate that burstiness in the service time process can be handled effectively by queueing models (e.g., MAP queueing networks [2]), there is a...
Due to the rapid acceptance of web services and its fast spreading, a number of mission-critical systems will be deployed as web services in next years. The availability of those ...
Jorge Salas, Francisco Perez-Sorrosal, Marta Pati&...
: XML is rapidly emerging as a standard for exchanging business data on the World Wide Web. For the foreseeable future, however, most business data will continue to be stored in re...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Eugene J. Shekita, Rimon...