The advancements in distributed computing have driven the emergence of service-based
infrastructures that allow for on-demand provision of ICT assets. Taking into consideration …

Over the past years services computing has become an emerging science that is highly
regarded as a necessary technology not only by research but by industry as well. In the …

Objective. Qualitative comparison of the initial stability provided by two joint preparation
techniques and various screw configurations in ankle arthrodesis, using the finite element …

Cloud infrastructure providers may form Cloud federations to cope with peaks in resource
demand and to make large-scale service management simpler for service providers. To …

While the Cloud computing paradigm is maturing and gaining wide acceptance, topics like
Quality of Service assurance and resource monitoring will remain active fields of …

Cloud computing mechanisms are steadily gaining significance in the field of IT
infrastructure hosting and maintenance. To date, we have reached a point where a …

This paper presents the real-time virtualised Cloud infrastructure that was developed in the
context of the IRMOS European Project. The paper shows how different concepts, such as …

Abstract As Cloud Computing evolves to becoming a major technological paradigm of our
times, topics like Quality of Service (QoS) assurance and resource monitoring will remain …

The variability in the infrared to millimetre emission from microquasar GRS 1915+ 105 is
believed to be dominated by the system's relativistic jet. In this paper we develop a time …

The creation of adaptive and reconfigurable Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) must take
into account the unpredictability of the Internet and of potentially buggy software, and thus …