This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
— this paper discusses a conceptual framework for the requirements engineering process for e-school applications offering a service to the information society. The e-school appli...
Dependable digital signing service requires both high fault-tolerance and high intrusion-tolerance. While providing high fault-tolerance, existing approaches do not satisfy the hig...
Guofei Gu, Prahlad Fogla, Wenke Lee, Douglas M. Bl...
Operating Systems provide services that are accessed by processes via mechanisms that involve a ring transition to transfer control to the kernel where the required function is pe...
State-of-the-art middleware and component technologies lack support for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Application developers, therefore, integrate QoS mechanisms into the a...