Several operations of Web-based applications are optimized with respect to the set of resources that will receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely the hot set. U...
For the last few years, large Web content providers interested in improving their scalability and availability have increasingly turned to three techniques: mirroring, content dis...
Rapid improvements in network bandwidth, cost, and ubiquity combined with the security hazards and high total cost of ownership of personal computers have created a growing market...
In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...
The paper presents a software component that enables NetSolve with direct communications between servers in a non-intrusive and incremental way. Non-intrusiveness means that the s...