This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
We are building an operating system in which an integral run-time code generator constantly strives to improve the quality of already executing code. Our system is based on a plat...
This paper will look at the human predisposition to oral tradition and its effectiveness as a learning tool to convey mission-critical information. After exploring the effectivenes...
In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...
The implementation of successful Assured Forwarding (AF) services according to the DiffServ framework remains a challenging problem today, despite the numerous proposals for AF PH...