Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Abstract—Many next-generation Internet architectures propose advanced packet processing functions in the data path of the network. Such “services” are typically performed on ...
In this paper, we analyze a discrete-time preemptive resume priority queue. We consider two classes of customers which have to be served, where customers of one class have preempt...
An experimental study compared the performance of a real-life HTML application and an AJAX application that implemented the same user interface. A statistically significant number ...
Content services such as content filtering and transcoding adapt contents to meet system requirements, display capacities, or user preferences. Data security in such a framework is...