Recent years have seen the massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud. One of the challenges posed by cloud applications is Quality-of-Service (QoS) management, which is the problem of allocating resources ...

Query processing techniques have been shown to considerably reduce software development efforts for wireless sensor networks. However, deploying a sensor network remains a difficult and error-prone task. This paper ...

Cloud computing is being adopted by commercial and governmental organizations driven by the need to reduce the operational cost of their information technology resources and search for a scalable and flexible way to provide ...

The fast and strong social and economic transformations in the economies of many countries has raised the competition for consumers. One of the elements required to adapt to such scenario is knowing customers and their ...

An econometric analysis is conducted to quantify the impact of different variables on the service quality of the Santiago, Chile bus system. The indicators tested as measures of service quality are the average bus speed, ...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promotes structuring applications via coarse-grained, remote components called services. To materialise SOC, web services is the most common choice. A web service comprises an implementation ...

The fast and strong social and economic transformations in the economies of many countries has raised the competition for consumers. One of the elements required to adapt to such scenario is knowing customers and their ...

Cloud databases achieve high availability by automatically replicating data on multiple nodes. However, the overhead caused by the replication process can lead to an increase in the mean and variance of transaction response ...

In-vehicle networking are constantly evolving. New types of networks and also new versions of existing networks are embedded, as well as new distributions of electronic units are proposed in vehicular electronic architectures ...