In both E-Commerce (EC) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) environments, sellers or service providers interact with customers or service clients for services or transactions. Fr...
Yan Wang 0002, Duncan S. Wong, Kwei-Jay Lin, Vijay...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...
Integrity constraints are valuable tools for enforcing consistency of data in a database. Global integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple d...
The growing popularity of inexpensive, portable recording devices, such as cellular phone cameras and compact digital audio recorders, presents a significant new threat to privac...
J. Alex Halderman, Brent R. Waters, Edward W. Felt...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...