In this note, we discuss issues pertaining to end-to-end qualityof-service management of commodity Internet applications and associated pricing incentive mechanisms. The issue of ...
Virtualization and consolidation are two complementary techniques widely adopted in a global strategy to reduce system management complexity. In this paper we show how two simple ...
Abstract. In the engineering domain, the development of complex products (e.g., cars) necessitates the coordination of thousands of (sub-)processes. One of the biggest challenges f...
: The monolithic and inflexible nature of current middleware has made it difficult to deal with emerging technologies such as multimedia. Since these applications have timeliness c...
Privacy has been acknowledged to be a critical requirement for many business (and non-business) environments. Therefore, the definition of an expressive and easy-to-use privacyre...