The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
—We study the optimal usage-based pricing problem in a resource-bounded network with one profit-maximizing service provider and multiple groups of surplus-maximizing users. We ...
— The Passive Optical Network (PON) is an attractive solution for delivering services with numerous applications, such as high-definition video, video conferencing and data traff...
John S. Vardakas, Vassilios G. Vassilakis, Michael...
Many Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches in use today presume the consistent availability of reliable networks and limitless resources. For some Department of Defense (...
Fatma Dandashi, Aaron Griggs, Jeffrey L. Higginson...
Large complex systems (such as Enterprise systems) are often composed of several interacting, independent components. In many such systems, although the behavior of the constituen...