In both the quality improvement and the design of a product, the engineering characteristics affecting product performance are primarily identified and improved to optimize custom...
A group of web caches can be organized into a cooperative hierarchy where a search for a requested object is performed among the cooperating peer caches before the object request ...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Advances in wireless networks and positioning technologies (e.g., GPS) have enabled new data management applications that monitor moving objects. In such new applications, realtime...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...