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IWQOS
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Service availability: a new approach to characterize IP backbone topologies
— Traditional SLAs, defined by average delay or packet loss, often camouflage the instantaneous performance perceived by end-users. We define a set of metrics for service avai...
Ram Keralapura, Chen-Nee Chuah, Gianluca Iannaccon...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Guiding Queries to Information Sources with InfoBeacons
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...
Brian F. Cooper
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Indicator-Based Selection in Multiobjective Search
Abstract. This paper discusses how preference information of the decision maker can in general be integrated into multiobjective search. The main idea is to first define the opti...
Eckart Zitzler, Simon Künzli
IDEAS
2003
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Multi-Resolution Block Storage Model for Database Design
We propose a new storage model called MBSM (Multiresolution Block Storage Model) for laying out tables on disks. MBSM is intended to speed up operations such as scans that are typ...
Jingren Zhou, Kenneth A. Ross
ERSHOV
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Outside-In Method of Teaching Introductory Programming
The new design for the introductory programming course at ETH relies on object technology, Eiffel, extensive reuse, a graphics-rich library (TRAFFIC) built specifically for the c...
Bertrand Meyer