Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
Abstract As service-based Internet systems get increasingly complex they become harder to manage at design time as well as at runtime. Nowadays, many systems are described in terms...
Web sites, Web pages and the data on pages are available only for specific periods of time and are deleted afterwards from a client’s point of view. An important task in order t...
The problem of optimally deploying a heterogeneous set of sensing devices in environments with differential surveillance requirements is presented. The problem is formulated in th...