As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service's discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS levels. For service selection a...
Today, business continuity depends significantly on the continuous availability of information systems. It is well-known that such systems must be protected against intrusion and ...
Electronic banking (e-banking), facilitated by various Electronic Commerce (EC) technologies, has helped commercial banks to stay competitive through productivity gains, transacti...
Abstract--Internet traffic exhibits self-similarity and longrange dependence (LRD) on various time scales. In this paper, we propose to use the Modified Allan Variance (MAVAR) and ...
In this paper, a rigorous MILP formulation for grass-root design of heat exchanger networks is developed. The methodology does not rely on traditional supertargeting followed by n...