— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...
Networked computing systems continue to grow in scale and in the complexity of their components and interactions. Component failures become norms instead of exceptions in these en...
The RM-ODP standard still provides the only comprehensive and coherent framework of concepts for the specification of complex large scale IT systems, and has taken on a new signif...
This paper extends the application of the Cantor metric as a mathematical tool for defining causalities from pure discrete models to mixed-signal and hybrid models. Using the Cant...
In ubiquitous networks, a lot of sensors and RFID readers will be connected to the networks as well as PCs and mobile phones are connected, and huge numbers of transactions are exp...