Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
: This paper considers the problem of resource allocation in the service industries approached from an agent-based perspective. Agent technologies seem to be well suited to this do...
Botond Virginas, Marian Florin Ursu, Edward P. K. ...
Service discovery problem has recently been drawing much attention from researchers and practitioners. Jini, SLP, and UPnP are among the few emerging service discovery protocols. ...
This paper proposes an approach to the solution of multi-objective optimisation problems that delivers a single, preferred solution. A conventional, population-based, multiobjectiv...
This paper addresses the question of updating relational databases through XML views. Using query trees to capture the notions of selection, projection, nesting, grouping, and het...
Vanessa P. Braganholo, Susan B. Davidson, Carlos A...