How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
This paper presents three contributions to research on middleware load balancing. First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework...
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Law...
— In this paper, we address the question of how to introduce new Quality-of-Service enhancements into the existing Internet. Specifically, dynamically shared circuitswitched/vir...
Xiuduan Fang, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Mark E. McGin...
Through web service technology, distributed applications can be built in a exible manner, bringing tremendous power to applications on the web. However, this exibility poses sig...
The current boom of the Web is associated with the revenues originated from on-line advertising. While search-based advertising is dominant, the association of ads with a Web page...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Marco Cristo, Paulo Braz...