1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...
We describe the design and implementation of a high performance cloud that we have used to archive, analyze and mine large distributed data sets. By a cloud, we mean an infrastruc...
The effective management of a service organization requires measuring system performance on many attributes. Customer waiting time is inherent to nearly all service operations and...
In this paper we present a detailed review on the Trader’s Quality of Service (QoS) Specifications and the Effects on System Performance for Video-on-Demand Multimedia (MM) Appl...
Systems and infrastructures are currently being developed to support Web services and Web processes. One prominent solution to manage and coordinate Web services is the use of wor...