: Documenting and maintaining an enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) causes a substantial management effort which should be addressed by intelligent, scalable solut...
Service-centric systems are driven more and more towards self-adaptation in order to satisfy QoS in highly dynamic environments. However, the young age and immaturity of this doma...
Many authorities have started to use web sites to provide services based on transactions. The guiding vision is often a process portal for citizens that provides access to the cou...
Several recent proposals for an “active networks” architecture advocate the placement of user-defined computation within the network as a key mechanism to enable a wide range...
We consider an M/G/1 queueing system where the speed of the server depends on the amount of work present in the system. As a service policy, we adopt the PM , release policy in a ...