—Social Tagging is the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords, to annotate and categorize items (songs, pictures, web links, products, etc.). Social tag...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Distributed discrete event simulation techniques aim at an acceleration of the execution of a self-contained simulation model by the spatial decomposition of that model and the co...
In computer networks, the Strict Priority (SP) discipline is perhaps the most common and simplest method to schedule packets from different classes of applications, each with diver...
Nowadays, the Quality of Service (QoS) in Optical Grids has become a key issue. An important QoS factor is the resiliency, namely the ability to survive from certain network failur...
Brigitte Jaumard, Jens Buysse, Ali Shaikh, Marc De...