Running in a highly uncertain and changing environment, Web systems cannot always provide full set of services with optimal quality, especially when the workload is high or failur...
As a computational model of natural language communication, Database Semantics1 (DBS) includes a hearer mode and a speaker mode. For the content to be mapped into language expressi...
Abstract--Microfluidics-based biochips enable the precise control of nanoliter volumes of biochemical samples and reagents. They combine electronics with biology, and they integrat...
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...