Temporal dependence within the workload of any computing or networking system has been widely recognized as a significant factor affecting performance. More specifically, burstin...
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska,...
— Telemedicine, distance learning and e-commerce applications impose time constraints directly related to the efficacy of their operations. In order to offer reliability levels ...
Lucas S. Casagrande, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, R...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolving architectural paradigm where businesses can expose their capabilities as modular, network-accessible software services. By decom...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...
Reputation systems facilitate cooperation in open environments. Centrality-based reputation systems use centrality measures to rank individuals, i.e., compute their reputation bas...
In a B2B environment business partners interact with each other by exchanging electronic business documents. The agreements and commitments between the partner require a certain o...
Christian Huemer, Marco Zapletal, Philipp Liegl, R...