Once electronic content has been released it is very difficult to prevent copies of the content from being widely distributed. Such distribution can cause economic harm to the con...
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, Brian Neil Levi...
A continuous top-k query retrieves the k most preferred objects in a data stream according to a given preference function. These queries are important for a broad spectrum of appl...
Avani Shastri, Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
In a wireless sensor network of N nodes transmitting data to a single base station, possibly over multiple hops, what distributed mechanisms should be implemented in order to dyna...
IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...