Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Autonomic computing – self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing applications, systems and networks – is widely believed to be a promising solution to everincreasing syst...
Gail E. Kaiser, Janak J. Parekh, Philip Gross, Giu...
In previous work a DOCSIS model was added to ‘ns’ to allow simulations to be run to analyze the performance of DOCSIS. These simulations showed that congestion caused by the a...
The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...
The integration of Bluetooth service discovery protocol (SDP), and GPRS internet connectivity into phones provides a simple yet powerful infrastructure for accessing services in n...
Nishkam Ravi, Peter Stern, Niket Desai, Liviu Ifto...