During the last years there have been a lot of proposals in the literature for systems that attempt to manage the process of trust establishment. However, the engineering details ...
Up until now little support has been provided for shared state systems in environments with highly unpredictable network connections, such as mobile networks. Shared state conflic...
Quality of service (QoS) in streaming of continuous media over the Internet is poor, which is partly due to variations in delays, bandwidth limitations, and packet losses. Althoug...
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...
We examine issues in the design of fully dynamic information retrieval systems with support for instantaneous document insertions and deletions. We present one such system and dis...