Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...
Pervasive computing refers to making many computing devices available throughout the physical environment, while making them effectively invisible to the user. To further increase...
Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, ...
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
Modeling data warehouses is a complex task focusing, very often, into internal structures and implementation issues. In this paper we argue that, in order to accurately reflect the...
Nectaria Tryfona, Frank Busborg, Jens G. Borch Chr...
Multihop lightwave networks are a means of utilizing the large bandwidth of optical fibers. In these networks, each node has a fixed number of transmitters and receivers connected...