Abstract. Predicting the performance of component-based applications is difficult due to the complexity of the underlying component technology. This problem is exacerbated when a m...
When integrating dierent system components, the interaction between dierent features is often error prone. Typically errors occur on interruption, concurrency or disabling/ enabli...
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes have been studied widely as a model for decision making under uncertainty, and a number of methods have been developed to find the s...
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such ...
Christopher Stewart, Terence Kelly, Alex Zhang, Ka...
We propose a notarized federated identity management model that supports efficient user authentication when providers are unknown to each other. Our model introduces a notary servi...
Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Danfeng Yao