In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium, but also as an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Traditional techniques for building dependable, highperformance distributed systems are too expensive for most non-critical systems, often causing dependability to be sidelined as...
Vikram S. Adve, Adnan Agbaria, Matti A. Hiltunen, ...
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are stochastic search methods that have been successfully applied in many search, optimization, and machine learning problems. Their parallel counterpart (...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...