Replication is known to offer high availability in the presence of failures. This paper considers the case of a client making invocations on a group of replicated servers. It iden...
Many service providers distribute various kinds of content over the Internet. They often use replica servers to provide stable service. To position them appropriately, service pro...
This paper instigates a discourse on the unplanned effects of intelligent agents in the context of their use on the Internet. By utilizing a social informatics framework as a lens...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Learning is the most indispensable activity in the current knowledge-based economy where firms, in order to compete and survive, must be constantly alert, capable of adapting to f...