In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are receiving increasing attention in a variety of current applications. In this paper, we concentrate on applications where a mobile user queries peers...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...
Grid services provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. We are developing a data grid s...
With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, systems of distributed cameras are becoming an enabling technology fo...