Abstract. One of the first motivations of using grids comes from applications managing large data sets like for example in High Energy Physic or Life Sciences. To improve the glob...
Frederic Desprez, Antoine Vernois, Christophe Blan...
With a majority of Internet traffic being predicted to be caused by content delivery, it is clear that content delivery applications will consume much of the resources on the Inter...
—P2P storage systems use replication to provide a certain level of availability. While the system must generate new replicas to replace replicas lost to permanent failures, it ca...
Two-stage selection procedures have been widely studied and applied in determining the required sample size (i.e., the number of replications or batches) for selecting the best of...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...