Most of the proposed approaches in automatic service selection assume the existence of a common ontology among communicating agents. However, this assumption becomes difficult to...
We build an efficient and reliable data transport protocol on top of the Short Message Service (SMS). We conduct a series of experiments to characterize SMS behaviour under bursty...
Abstract—In this paper, we present NetQuest, a flexible framework for large-scale network measurement. We apply Bayesian experimental design to select active measurements that m...
Although conventional database management systems are designed to tolerate hardware and to a lesser extent even software errors, they cannot protect themselves against syntactical...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...