The Internet is rapidly changing from a set of wires and switches that carry packets into a sophisticated infrastructure that delivers a set of complex value-added services to end...
Prashant R. Chandra, Allan Fisher, Corey Kosak, T....
ÐReal-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are violat...
Mobile environments are highly dynamic, characterised by frequent and sudden changes in resource availability. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of...
Christos Efstratiou, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, ...
This paper proposes the modeling and the performance analysis of a high-level control protocol – COCOP, which enables cooperative groups of clients to control a shared server de...
While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has attrac...
Stephen Dignum, Udo Kruschwitz, Maria Fasli, Yunhy...