This paper describes a biologically-inspired architecture, called SymbioticSphere, which allows large-scale server farms to autonomously adapt to dynamic environmental changes and...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
Packet classification is crucial for the Internet to provide more value-added services and guaranteed quality of service. Besides hardware-based solutions, many software-based cla...