Performing QoS (Quality of Service) control in large computing systems requires an on line metric that is representative of the real state of the system. The Tardiness Quantile Me...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
Provenance describes how an object came to be in its present state. Thus, it describes the evolution of the object over time. Prior work on provenance has focussed on databases an...
An e-Government portal represents not only a reputable public image of the sovereignty of a region, it is responsible for serving many users from local citizens and beyond, in a r...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems rely on data redundancy to obtain high levels of data availability. Among the existing data redundancy schemes, erasure coding is a widely adopte...
We study the multicast problem in wireless sensor networks, where the source can send data to a fixed number of destinations (actuators) at a different rate (multiratecast). A typi...