— Designing optimal measurement infrastructure is a key step for network management. In this work we address the problem of optimizing a scalable distributed polling system. The ...
Many Ambient Intelligence (AmI) scenarios fit perfectly for auto-generated distributed networks, but they assume the existence of good enough network topology organizing the conn...
Requirements interdependencies create technical dependencies among project members that generally belong to different functional groups in an organization, but who need to coordin...
In this paper, we explore services and capabilities that can be enabled by the localization of various "assets" in a data center or IT environment. We also describe the u...
A business's success depends on its ability to protect valuable business assets in an increasingly hostile environment. Protecting information requires a cost, not only in pu...