Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
In a large distributed system it is often infeasible or even impossible to perform diagnosis using a single model of the whole system. Instead, several spatially distributed local...
Abstract—Caching static HTTP traffic in proxy-caches has reduced bandwidth consumption and download latency. However, web-caching performance is hard to increase further due to ...
We give the first polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Steiner forest problem on planar graphs and, more generally, on graphs of bounded genus. As a first step, w...
Content-based routing (CBR) provides the core distribution support of several middleware paradigms, most notably content-based publish-subscribe. Despite its popularity, however, ...