Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
Pervasive Computing envisions distributed applications that optimally leverage the resources present in their ever-changing execution environment. To ease the development of perva...
Marcus Handte, Klaus Herrmann, Gregor Schiele, Chr...
To scale to millions of Internet users with good performance, content delivery networks (CDNs) must balance requests between content servers while assigning clients to nearby serv...
Abstract— Current computing systems employ different mechanisms to deal with overload conditions. Of those widely deployed are content adaptation mechanisms whereby the quality l...
Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros, Ibrah...
: A recent article by Joseph Buschman regrets that democratic theory is an unfinished idea. The argument appears to assume an essential relationship between library information sci...