—Efficient server selection algorithms reduce retrieval time for objects replicated on different servers and are an important component of Internet cache architectures. This pap...
Sandra G. Dykes, Kay A. Robbins, Clinton L. Jeffer...
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Methods for automatically managing the performance of computing services must estimate a performance model of that service. This paper explores properties that are necessary for p...
A key limitation of current Web services standards is the inability to differentiate service instances at runtime using (nonfunctional) qualities of services (QoS). Such differe...
—Making use of the World Wide Web’s numerous services increasingly requires the disclosure of personal user data. While these data represent an important value for service prov...