While modern CPUs offer an increasing number of cores with shared caches, prevailing execution engines for business processes, workflows, or Web service compositions have not been ...
In this paper, we present a middleware architecture for coordination services in sensor networks that facilitates interaction between groups of sensors which monitor different env...
Brian M. Blum, Prashant Nagaraddi, Anthony D. Wood...
A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a theoretical model of flash crowd events and evaluate...
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Bra...
Ad hoc networks, being able to organize themselves without user intervention, can easily provide their users with mobility, multimedia support and group communication. However, the...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...