Abstract With the rapid advances in mobile computing technology, there is an increasing demand for processing realtime transactions in a mobile environment. This paper studies con...
Kam-yiu Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Wai-Hung Tsang, Gary C. ...
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...
Online auction sites have unique workloads and user behavior characteristics that do not exist in other e-commerce sites. Earlier studies by the authors identified i) significan...
—A self-reconfigurable robot is a robotic device that can change its own shape. Self-reconfigurable robots are commonly built from multiple identical modules that can manipulat...
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...