A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
This paper presents an analytical model to compute the average service time and jitter experienced by a packet when transmitted in a saturated IEEE 802.11 ad hoc network. In contr...
Multi-item, multi-unit negotiations in industrial procurement pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providering agents’ offers. Typic...
ATM-based integrated services networks are likely to rely on the Virtaal Path (VP) concept as an intermediate resource management layer wherein key decisions concerning resource a...
- This paper reviews current cloud computing business models and presents proposals on how organisations can achieve sustainability by adopting appropriate models. We classify clou...
Victor Chang, David A. Bacigalupo, Gary Wills, Dav...