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The Universal Postal Service in the communications area : Adapting to changing markets and customer behavior

This study is making the case that the Universal Postal Service as currently defined at the European level should be modernized. The European Union plans to liberalize and build up an internal market for postal services by 2009 with the aim to foster impro ...

2005

A Dialogue-based Grounding mechanism and new Service Description Features for adapting Semantic (Web) Services to Personal Assistants

Martin Rajman, David Portabella Clotet

We delegate increasingly sophisticated and complex tasks to computer programs, and we require them to act autonomously on our behalf in distributed environments (eg the web, the grid). Personal Assistants (PA) are computer programs that can be thought as a ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)2004

Fuelling WiFi deployment: A reputation-based solution

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Naouel Ben Salem

The rapid growth of WiFi over the past two years reveals the willingness of the Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) to develop this technology and the interest of the users in this new service. However, the lack of unified roaming slows down the de ...

2004

Reputation-based Wi-Fi Deployment - Protocols and Security Analysis

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Naouel Ben Salem

In recent years, wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) have established thousands of WiFi hot spots in cafes, hotels and airports in order to offer to travelling Internet users access to email, web or other Internet service. However, two major proble ...

2004

Reputation-based Wi-Fi Deployment: Protocols and Security Analysis

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Naouel Ben Salem

2004

Behavioural Description Formalisms for Service Integration - Survey and Comparation

Boi Faltings, Ion Constantinescu

Current web infrastructure is oriented on human-machine interactions. Developments for next generation large-scale information systems (such as Web Services and ebXML) however aim to allow for automated interactions between arbitrary systems / services. Th ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)2002

Impact of link failures on VoIP performance

Catherine Boutremans

We use active and passive traffic measurements to identify the issues involved in the deployment of a voice service over a tier-1 IP backbone network. Our findings indicate that no specific handling of voice packets (i.e. QoS differentiation) is needed in ...

2002

Impact of link failures on VoIP performance

Catherine Boutremans

2002

The Generic Consensus Service

Rachid Guerraoui, André Schiper

This paper describes a modular approach for the construction of fault-tolerant agreement protocols. The approach is based on a generic consensus service. Fault-tolerant agreement protocols are built using a client-server interaction, where the clients are ...

2001

A programmable architecture for the provision of hybrid services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

The success of new service provision platforms will largely depend on their ability to blend with existing technologies. The advent of Internet telephony, although impressive, is unlikely to make telephone customers suddenly turn in favor of computers. Rat ...

1999

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