Object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly gaining acceptance as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of applications in various areas of industry. St...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...
We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
A novel approach to quality of service control in an active service network (application layer active network) is described. The approach makes use of a distributed genetic algori...
Recently, there has been a considerable interest in policy-based, goal-oriented service management and autonomic computing. Much work is still required to investigate designs and ...
There are a variety of well-known models for access control developed for purposes like formally modeling the access rights on files, databases, and web resources. However, the ex...
Carl A. Gunter, Michael J. May, Stuart G. Stubbleb...