In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
Reliable storage of data with concurrent read/write accesses (or query/update) is an ever recurring issue in distributed settings. In mobile ad hoc networks, the problem becomes e...
Abstract. This paper is devoted to discuss a general tendency in contextualism which is known as "radical contextualism". In the first part I state the well known paradox...
Mobile Internet access is becoming extremely popular because users depend on the Internet for many activities in their daily routine. Satellites are well suited for mobile Interne...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...