The increased pervasiveness of mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs, and laptops draws attention to the need for coordination among these networked devices. The very nature of the...
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
For an information agent to support a human in a personalized way, having a model of the trust the human has in information sources may be essential. As humans differ a lot in the...
A link adaptation schemes is proposed to improve the efficiency to support DiffServ traffic over CDMA air interface. To differentiate the resource allocation between DiffServ PHBs...
Lin Wang, Vasilis Friderikos, Mikio Iwamura, Nima ...
The Grid provides facilities that support the coordinated use of diverse resources, and consequently, provides new opportunities for wide-area query processing. However, Grid resou...
Anastasios Gounaris, Jim Smith, Norman W. Paton, R...