Abstract. Our work involves the development of a prototype Geographical Information System GIS as an example of the use of process networks as a well-de ned high-level semantic mod...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Video-on-demand (VoD) systems have traditionally been built on the client-server architecture, where a video server stores, retrieves, and transmits video data to video clients fo...
As chip complexity grows, design productivity boost is expected from reuse of large parts and blocks of previous designs with the design effort largely invested into the new parts...
The Web browser has become the dominant interface to a broad range of applications, including online banking, Web-based email, digital media delivery, gaming, and ecommerce servic...
Richard S. Cox, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy, ...