—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Location based services are becoming essential feature of context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Reflective distribute component programming model is proposed to systematicall...
We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...
Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consi...
Yasushi Saito, Christos T. Karamanolis, Magnus Kar...
Channel coding is an important building block in communication systems since it ensures the quality of service. Irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) codes belong to the class of Low-...