: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Abstract--After the seminal work by Taqqu et al. relating selfsimilarity to heavy-tailed distributions, a number of research articles verified that aggregated Internet traffic time...
Content Distribution Overlays improves end-user performance by replicating Web contents on a group of geographically distributed sites interconnected over the Internet. However, w...
We introduce SPREAD - a new architecture for distributing and maintaining up-to-date Web content that simultaneously employs three different mechanisms: client validation, server ...
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...