Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motivatio...
Privacy is a concept which received relatively little attention during the rapid growth and spread of information technology through the 1980’s and 1990’s. Design to make info...
Carolyn Brodie, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, Jin...
Abstract. In this work we investigate bounds on throughput and delay performance of a scheduling protocol that derives its decisions from codes traditionally used to correct or det...
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...