Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...
Recent observations through experiments that we have performed in current third generation wireless networks have revealed that the achieved throughput over wireless links varies ...
Pablo Rodriguez, Sarit Mukherjee, Sampath Rangaraj...
Abstract: Preference elicitation is often used in e-services to create product recommendations for their customers. We present an approach for applying preference elicitation techn...
The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...