Business to consumer is expected to be one of the fastest growing segments of electronic commerce. One important and challenging problem in such context, is the satisfaction of use...
We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and ...
Typical IT Environments of medium to large size organizations consist of tens of networks that connect hundreds of servers to support the running of a large variety of business-re...
Hady S. AbdelSalam, Kurt Maly, Ravi Mukkamala, Moh...
In this paper, we introduce an XML-based Hierarchical QoS Markup Language, called HQML, to enhance distributed multimedia applications on the World Wide Web (WWW) with Quality of ...
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...