In a competitive environment, companies continuously innovate to offer superior services at lower costs. `Shared services' have been extensively adopted in practice as one me...
Suraya Miskon, Wasana Bandara, Erwin Fielt, Guy G....
—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of larges...
Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V....
Subtle implementation errors or mis-configurations in complex Internet services may lead to performance degradations without causing failures. These undiscovered performance anomal...
Christopher Stewart, Kai Shen, Arun Iyengar, Jian ...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...