Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to subm...
Web services specification provides an open standard for the distributed service oriented architecture. It is widely used in Internet and pervasive networks supporting wireless m...
— Routing protocols often keep track of multiple route metrics, where some metrics are more important than others. Route selection is then based on lexicographic comparison: the ...
—Inter-domain routing is suffering from the lack of identifiers for the rapidly growing number of Autonomous Systems (AS), and therefore the 4-byte AS number has been proposed a...