Interest has been growing in powering data centers (at least partially) with renewable or “green” sources of energy, such as solar or wind. However, it is challenging to use t...
Recently, Continua Health Alliance has brought together a powerhouse team, including Cisco, IBM, Motorola and others, for personal telehealth products and services. This team will...
Celina Gibbs, Daniel Lohmann, Chunjian Robin Liu, ...
Role engineering, the task of defining roles and associating permissions to them, is essential to realize the full benefits of the role-based access control paradigm. Essentially,...
Postponement or delayed product differentiation has been identified as a key strategy to manage increasing demand uncertainty. The benefits of postponement arise out of the abil...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...