The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
To sustain emerging data-intensive scientific applications, High Performance Computing (HPC) centers invest a notable fraction of their operating budget on a specialized fast sto...
Henry M. Monti, Ali Raza Butt, Sudharshan S. Vazhk...
In a hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) system, flooding and DHT are both employed for content locating. The decision to use flooding or DHT largely depends on the population of desired da...
Xiaoqiu Shi, Jinsong Han, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni
This paper aims at estimating the switching time for linear switched systems, i.e. the time instant when a sub-model is switched on while another one is switched off. Assuming that...
Yang Tian, Thierry Floquet, Lotfi Belkoura, Wilfri...
—The rapid growth of media content distribution on the Internet in the past few years has brought with it commensurate increases in the costs of distributing that content. Can th...