Advance Reservations(AR) make it possible to guarantee the QoS of Grid applications by reserving a particular resource capability over a defined time interval on local resources. H...
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...
This paper presents the first polylogarithmic-competitive online algorithms for two-metric network design problems. These problems arise naturally in the design of computer netwo...
For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
Abstract. Energy consumption is a major factor that limits the performance of sensor applications. Sensor nodes have varying sampling rates since they face continuously changing en...