With the Internet designed to provide best-effort packet transmission, applications are expected to adapt dynamically to the operating conditions observed in the network. For this ...
In an era that, searching the WWW for information becomes a tedious task, it is obvious that mainly search engines and other data mining mechanisms need to be enhanced with charact...
Multi-tier architectures are widely used by internet applications. Guaranteeing the performance, and more generally the quality of service (QoS), of such applications remains a cr...
The Web has been the star service on the Internet, however the outsized information available and its decentralized nature has originated an intrinsic difficulty to locate, extract...
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...