Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...
Peer-to-peer technologies are increasingly becoming the medium of choice for delivering media content, both professional and homegrown, to large user populations. Indeed, current ...
In distributed software development, two sorts of dependencies can arise. The structure of the software system itself can create dependencies between software elements, while the ...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jon Froehlich, Paul Douri...