We present a simulation model used to evaluate a distributed search engine by modelling its performance. The model is designed to aid performance-driven evolution of the system. W...
Thomas Phelan, Ahmed Patel, Seamus O. Ciardhu&aacu...
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concent...
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman, Matt Wels...
Supporting awareness of others is an idea that holds promise for improving the usability of real-time distributed groupware. However, there is little principled information availa...
For effective cooperation, sharing of resources, a good social climate and therefore better learning, students need to maintain awareness of the social situation in a group or a c...
—The rapid growth of media content distribution on the Internet in the past few years has brought with it commensurate increases in the costs of distributing that content. Can th...