Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...
IP in the edge and ATM in the core are commonplace in today's internetworks. The IETF has proposed a new Quality of Service (QoS) mechanism namely Differentiated Services (Dif...
The Service Oriented Architecture enables the development of flexible large scale-applications in open environments by dynamically combining Web services. Nevertheless, current te...
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...
—This paper presents the Weight-Watcher service. This service aims at providing resource consumption measurements and estimations for software executing on resourceconstrained de...