— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). In this work, we study the problem of desig...
— In service-oriented environments, reputation-based service selection is gaining increasing prominence. We propose in this paper a social network-based approach to model and ana...
Abstract In this paper, we propose the use of a distributed service management architecture for state-of-the-art service-enabled Grids. The architecture is capable of performing au...
Bruno Volckaert, Pieter Thysebaert, Marc De Leenhe...
This paper introduces concast, a new network service. Concast is the inverse of multicast: multiple sources send messages toward the same destination, which results in a single me...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Amit Sehgal, Su...
This paper illustrates the development of an approximate analytical model for a communication network providing integrated services to a population of mobile users, and presents p...
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Salvatore Marano, Carlo Mastr...