Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...
The PageRank algorithm is used by search engines such as Google to order web pages. It uses an iterative numerical method to compute the maximal eigenvector of a transition matrix ...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Douglas V. de Jager, William J....
Wireless sensor networks are capable of carrying out surveillance missions for various applications in remote areas without human interventions. An essential issue of sensor netwo...
Abstract. This paper considers the use of dependent types to capture information about dynamic resource usage in a static type system. Dependent types allow us to give (explicit) p...
This paper investigates the problem of assessing the quality of video transmitted over IP networks. Our goal is to develop a methodology that is both reasonably accurate and simpl...