As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of...
The performance of host communication subsystems is an important research topic in computer networks.1 Performance metrics such as throughput, delay, and packet loss are important...
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...
Workflow management systems guide and monitor tasks performed by humans and computers. The workflow specifications are usually expressed in special purpose (graphical) formalisms....
Jan Martin Jansen, Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter W. M. ...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...