Protecting location information of mobile users in Location Based Services (LBS) is a very important but quite difficult and still largely unsolved problem. Location information h...
The goal of online failure prediction is to forecast imminent failures while the system is running. This paper compares Similar Events Prediction (SEP) with two other well-known t...
Workflow enactment systems are becoming an effective solution to ease programming, deployment and execution of distributed applications in several domains such as telecommunicatio...
role assignment is a programming abstraction that supports the assignment of user-defined roles to sensor nodes such that certain conditions are met. Many common network configu...
In this paper, we argue that a broad range of Internet-scale distributed applications can benefit from an underlying low-cost consistency detection framework – an alternative to...