We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...
Service Oriented Programming - which combines Distributed Object Compunting, Component Based and webbased concepts - has recently emerged as a promising approach to develop dynami...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
The standard language for describing the asymptotic behavior of algorithms is theoretical computational complexity. We propose a method for describing the asymptotic behavior of p...
Simon Goldsmith, Alex Aiken, Daniel Shawcross Wilk...
Service providers like Google and Amazon are moving into the SaaS (Software as a Service) business. They turn their huge infrastructure into a cloud-computing environment and aggr...
Wai Kit Wong, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos...