Operator mistakes are a significant source of unavailability in modern Internet services. In this paper, we first characterize these mistakes by performing an extensive set of exp...
Reliability is a key issue of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which is widely employed in critical domains such as e-commerce and e-government. Redundancy-based fault tole...
The OSGi Services Platform provides a framework for the dynamic deployment of Java-based applications. It allows to install, to activate, to update and to uninstall application mo...
— Nowadays, a new generation of civil location based services (LBS) included in the intelligent road transport systems (ITS-R) field is emerging. The reliability of positioning ...
An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing is that the computational services in our environment are envisioned to be far more interconnectable than today. This means it ...