—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
— Trust in software services is a key prerequisite for the success and wide adoption of Services-Oriented Computing (SOC) in an open Internet world. However, trust is poorly asse...
—In the last few years, long-distance WiFi networks have been used to provide Internet connectivity in rural areas. The strong requirement to support real-time applications in th...
Formulating and executing queries over distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous resources is an important research area. The advent of the Internet and the Web and their inherent...
Abstract. Novelty detection in data stream mining denotes the identification of new or unknown situations in a stream of data elements flowing continuously in at rapid rate. This...