Abstract--Reliability and sensitivity analysis is a key component in the design, tuning, and maintenance of network systems. Tremendous research efforts have been expended in this ...
Production of reliable and flexible distributed applications is a growing area of interest and research. Various middleware technologies are often used as the communication infras...
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online commercial activity enabled by the World Wide Web. An electronic marketplace (e-market) provides an online method to perf...
Adriano M. Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr.,...
—Many collaboration platforms are realized as service-oriented systems enabling flexible compositions of services and support of interactions. Interactions between entities in s...
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...