In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
A distributed multimedia information system allows users to access data of different modalities, from different data sources, ranked by various combinationsof criteria. In [6], Fa...
Edward L. Wimmers, Laura M. Haas, Mary Tork Roth, ...
Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise bu...
The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L which can acc...
Within the field of databases that are deployed in distributed environments there is a need to guarantee consistency among replicas and availability among nodes despite of networ...