To accommodate the exponential growth of Web traffic, Content Distribution Networks (CDN) have been designed and deployed to distribute content to different cache servers, and to ...
Lin Cai, Jun Ye, Jianping Pan, Xuemin Shen, Jon W....
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
Abstract—Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influence models of work. Today, there is an increasing interest in outsourcing tasks to crowdsourcing environments tha...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
Analytic applications from various industrial sectors have specific attributes and requirements including relatively long processing time, parallelization, multiple interactive in...
L. L. Fong, Catherine H. Crawford, Hidayatullah Sh...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....