As we are entering the New Millenium, we are witnessing a global shift toward a society of services. The evolution of the world's workforce structure indicates clearly the ma...
While SOAP/XML is perceived as the appropriate interoperability level for web-services, companies compete to provide workflow-based tools for web-service integration. This paper p...
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...
There is a growing demand for web applications to provide fair service to the highly concurrent requests. In this paper, we present an approach to addressing this requirement. Bas...