A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a theoretical model of flash crowd events and evaluate...
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Bra...
Abstract Virtual Campus is an Internet application in education. It combines the advantages of both group and individual learning approaches based on advanced network technologies....
Tiger is a scalable, fault-tolerant video file server constructed from a collection of computers connected by a switched network. All content files are striped across all of the c...
William J. Bolosky, Robert P. Fitzgerald, John R. ...
Flooding is a growing problem, which affects more than 10% of the UK population. The cost of damage caused by flooding correlates closely with the warning time given before a floo...
Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Gordon S. Blair, Geo...
In a supply chain organized as a network of autonomous enterprises, the main objective of each partner is to optimize his production and supply policy with respect to his own econ...