Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual ...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...
Sensors can be paired with radio units and deployed to form a wireless ad-hoc sensor network. Actual deployments must consider the coverage that can be achieved with a given numbe...
Currently, the Internet provides researchers with the opportunity to conduct online surveys in a more efficient and effective way than was previously allowed by traditional means....
Though the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is becoming the defacto standard for digital libraries, some of its predecessors are still in use. Al...
Terry L. Harrison, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zub...