Data dissemination in sensor networks requires four components: resource discovery, route establishment, packet forwarding, and route maintenance. Resource discovery can be the mos...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
This paper evaluates the performance of the parallel, main-memory DBMS, PRISMA/DB. First, an architecture for parallel query execution is presented. A performance model for the ex...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...
Analyzing and controlling large distributed services under a wide range of conditions is difficult. Yet these capabilities are essential to a number of important development and o...
David L. Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, Hakim We...
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...