Although active networks have generated much debate in the research community, on the whole there has been little hard evidence to inform this debate. This paper aims to redress t...
Integrating p2p services in multi-hop ad hoc networks is today a hot topic. General multi-hop , and pervasive systems in particular, can greatly benefit from high-level middleware...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...
Multimedia meeting collections, composed of unedited audio and video streams, handwritten notes, slides, and electronic documents that jointly constitute a raw record of complex h...
Discovering different types of file resources (such as documentation, programs, and images) in the vast amount of data contained within network file systems is useful for both u...