One of the most important issues to deal with in peerto-peer networks is how to disseminate information. In this paper, we use a completely new approach to solving the information...
Ajoy Kumar Datta, Maria Gradinariu, Michel Raynal,...
Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
: Modeling the characteristics of specific images and individual users is a critical issue in content-based image retrieval but insufficiently addressed by the current retrieval ap...
Many mathematical models have been proposed to evaluate the execution performance of an application with and without checkpointing in the presence of failures. They assume that th...