Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
In many applications, we monitor data obtained from multiple streaming sources for collective decision making. The task presents several challenges. First, data in sensor networks...
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
Web systems suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs of many users. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all'' approac...