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...
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...
Despite the immense potential of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks in facilitating collaborative applications, they have become largely known as a free haven for pirated music swapping....
The run-time binding of web services has been recently put forward in order to support rapid and dynamic web service compositions. With the growing number of alternative web servi...
The increasing popularity of SAT and BDD techniques in verification and synthesis encourages the search for additional speed-ups. Since typical SAT and BDD algorithms are exponent...