The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
? Peer-to-peer is a popular distributed system. With the advancement in mobile technologies, mobile p2p has revealed its attraction. But, the resource constraints such as bandwidth...
Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
Stability in presence of bounded uncertain time-varying delays in the feedback loop of a system is studied. The delay parameter is assumed to be an unknown time-varying function f...