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GI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Proactive Services in a Distributed Traffic Telematics Application
: The paper describes a mobile application for traffic telematics, based on the Jini middleware. The application is realized as a set of user-level services, characterized by follo...
Nils Gura, Albert Held, Jörg Kaiser
ADC
2004
Springer
79views Database» more  ADC 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
An Economic Model for Comparing Search Services
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
Stephen K. Kwan, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan
TPDS
2010
135views more  TPDS 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
ICWS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Flexible Probabilistic QoS Management of Transaction Based Web Services Orchestrations
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Claude Jard