In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
The performance in higher secondary school education in India is a turning point in the academic lives of all students. As this academic performance is influenced by many factors,...
High availability (HA) computing has recently gained much attention, especially in enterprise and mission critical systems. The HA is now a necessity that is no longer regarded as...
A proactive handling of faults requires that the risk of upcoming failures is continuously assessed. One of the promising approaches is online failure prediction, which means that...
Most network engineering tools are unsatisfactory. Measurements are not predictive, simulations do not scale, and analysis is limited to oversimplified models. To be more useful, ...