—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
In the past few years we have seen a huge industrial investment on the development of content delivery networks (CDNs) which provide a large number of caches and storage devices a...
Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Xie, Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Z...
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Chang Li, Gang Peng, Kartik Gopalan, Tzi-cker Chiu...
Abstract. The vision of Semantic Web services is that computer systems shall find eligible services autonomously. This can be realised with providing semantic description about ad...
ct One significant effort towards combining the virtues of Web search, viz. being accessible to untrained users and able to cope with vastly heterogeneous data, with those of dat...