User mobility prediction can enable a mobile service provider to optimize the use of its network resources, e.g., through coordinated selection of base stations and intelligent content prefetching. In this paper, we study how to perform mobility prediction by leveraging the base station level location information readily available to a service provider. However, identifying real movements from ...

We extend the service abstraction in the Open Grid Services Architecture[12] for Quality of Service (QoS) properties. The realization of QoS often requires mechanisms such as advance or on-demand reservation of resources, varying in type and implementation, and independently controlled and monitored. Foster et al. propose the GARA [10] architecture. The GARA library provides a restricted repres...

This paper describes how MEADEP [SoHaR00], a system level dependability prediction tool, and SMERFS [Farr93], a software reliability growth prediction tool can be used together to predict system reliability, and availability growth) for complex systems. The Littlewood/Verrall model is used to predict reliability growth from software test data. This prediction is integrated into a system level M...

this paper presents a new formulation for warehouse inventory management in a stochastic situation. the primary source of this formulation is derived from fp model, which has been proposed by fletcher and ponnambalam for reservoir management. the new proposed mathematical model is based on the first and the second moments of storage as a stochastic variable. using this model, the expected value...

Nowadays relations between service providers and customers are set in the service level agreement templates. SLA sometimes is called as service level warranty helps to reach to a common vision about the service, quality of service warranty, priorities, responsibilities and etc in which parties agrees on it. The most important topic in service level agreement is survey management and violation d...