—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...
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A world of ever growing competition not only forces enterprises to continuously optimise their private business processes but also to integrate their business processes with their ...
Digital multimedia has gained popularity due to the huge success of the Internet. Users acquire and disseminate multimedia information using different types of devices and communi...