—The research area of Multimedia Content Analysis (MMCA) considers all aspects of the automated extraction of new knowledge from large multimedia data streams and archives. In re...
R. Yang, Robert D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, Frank J...
Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...
Electronic commerce servers have a significant presence in today’s Internet. Corporations require good performance for their business processes. To date, little empirical evide...
Qing Wang, Dwight J. Makaroff, H. Keith Edwards, R...
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
While overall bandwidth in the internet has grown rapidly over the last few years, and an increasing number of clients enjoy broadband connectivity, many others still access the i...