Progressive processing plans allow systems to tradeoff computational resources against the quality of service by specifying alternative ways in which to accomplish each step. When ...
Shlomo Zilberstein, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, Andrew A...
The ability to find services or resources that satisfy some criteria is an important aspect of distributed systems. This paper presents an event-based architecture to support more...
—Multithreaded servers with cache-coherent shared memory are the dominant type of machines used to run critical network services and database management systems. To achieve the h...
This paper studies the use of highly dynamic networks as infrastructures for persistent storage of data that offer services at specific geographical zones in a decentralized and...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important due to the rapid transition of the Internet from text and graphics based applications to multimedia-driven environments...