One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...
Abstract. In a distributed system, dynamically dividing execution between nodes is essential for service robustness. However, when all of the nodes cannot be equally trusted, and w...
— User’s requirements have become a key factor for any Quality of Service (QoS) management model to succeed. The advent and rise of new broadband services and network architect...
Eva Ibarrola, Fidel Liberal, Ianire Taboada, Rodri...
Service Oriented Computing is a paradigm for developing software systems as the composition of a number of services. Services are loosely coupled entities, can be dynamically publi...
Laura Bocchi, Stephen Gorton, Stephan Reiff-Margan...
: We present an architecture and prototype implementation of a performance management system for cluster-based web services. The system supports multiple classes of web services tr...
Ronald M. Levy, Jay Nagarajarao, Giovanni Pacifici...