Metacomputing infrastructures couple multiple clusters (or MPPs) via wide-area networks. A major problem in programming parallel applications for such platforms is their hierarchi...
— Flow-level traffic measurement is required for a wide range of applications including accounting, network planning and security management. A key design challenge is how to gr...
The most common problem of an overloaded electronic-commerce server is an increase in the response time perceived by customers, who may restart their requests hoping to get a fast...
We study integrated prefetching and caching problems following the work of Cao et. al. [3] and Kimbrel and Karlin [13]. Cao et. al. and Kimbrel and Karlin gave approximation algor...
Qureshi, et al. (2002) [1] presented a case study where they used a framework, the Intellectual Bandwidth Model to measure an organization’s ability to create value. The model c...