Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...
In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
It has long been accepted that requirements analysis should precede architectural design and implementation, but in software evolution and reverse engineering this concern with bl...
— Scientific applications often perform complex computational analyses that consume and produce large data sets. We are concerned with data placement policies that distribute dat...
Ann L. Chervenak, Ewa Deelman, Miron Livny, Mei-Hu...
P2P applications have found a lot of interest lately but there are open questions about the viability of the revenue models behind P2P applications/ services. In this paper, we di...