— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
A semantic based approach for QoS driven service discovery is proposed to help clients select the currently best services matching their requests in a dynamic GGS (GIS Grid Servic...
—The performance of BPEL processes depends on the composing web services. Monitoring web service performance and adapting to changes in service performance are essential for crea...
Abstract— We develop an economic model for networks offering tiered services and we formulate the problem of selecting the service tiers from three perspectives: one that conside...
In this paper we propose fully distributed trustbased policies for p2p systems to regulate the exchange of different type of services and discourage misbehaviour. In a system of p...