This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
The widespread availability of devices with multiple wireless interfaces and the abundance of heterogeneous positioning techniques open new market potentials for Location Based Se...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aid...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&oum...
We present a policy-based architecture STEPS for lifecycle management (LCM) in a mass scale distributed file system. The STEPS architecture is designed in the context of IBM’s ...
Akshat Verma, David Pease, Upendra Sharma, Marc Ka...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...