This paper presents a unified utility framework for resource selection of distributed text information retrieval. This new framework shows an efficient and effective way to infer ...
In this paper we combine two existing resource selection approaches, CORI and the decision-theoretic framework (DTF). The state-of-the-art system CORI belongs to the large group of...
Grid computing aims to connect large numbers of geographically and organizationally distributed resources to increase computational power, resource utilization, and resource acces...
Publicly available biological resources form a complex maze of highly heterogeneous data sources, interconnected by navigational capabilities and applications. Although it offers ...
Video delivery from a server to a client across a network is an important component of many multimedia applications. While delivering a video stream across a resource constrained ...