Component-based architectures are the traditional approach cile application specific optimization with reusable abstractions in sensor networks. However, they frequently overwhelm ...
One of the fundamental ideas of services and service oriented architecture is the possibility to develop new applications by composing existing services into business processes. Ho...
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
Abstract--As society's dependence on network technology increases, the need for resilience and survivability in these services becomes increasingly apparent. Since the user ex...
Justin P. Rohrer, Ramya Naidu, James P. G. Sterben...
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...