We calculate a fixed finite set of state space fragments for a service P, where each fragment carries a part of the whole behavior of P. By composing these fragments according to t...
Previous studies measuring the performance of general-purpose operating systems running large-scale Internet server applications, such as proxy caches, have identified design defi...
The popularity of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) brings a large number of distributed, well-encapsulated and reusable services all over internet, and makes it possible to create...
State-of-the-art middleware and component technologies lack support for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Application developers, therefore, integrate QoS mechanisms into the a...
Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...