Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
A ubiquitous city is where everything is interconnected with everything else, where information is instantaneously shared. In a U-city, people can access a variety of web data in ...
Wireless IEEE 802.11 networks are typically deployed as a convenient and flexible way to access wired backbones. However, due to the inherently shared nature and physical propert...
—Design and evaluation of groupware systems raise questions which do not have to be addressed in the context of single user systems. The designer has to take into account not onl...
— We consider a queueing system with controllable service rate; for example, a transmitter whose rate can be controlled by varying the transmission power. For such a system we ob...