A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performa...
Social networking systems help people maintain connections to their friends, enabling awareness, communication, and collaboration, especially at a distance. In many studies of coo...
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...