Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing co...
Scientific and intelligence applications have special data handling needs. In these settings, data does not fit the standard model of short coded records that had dominated the dat...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Mobile IP is a common standard to support global mobility of mobile hosts (MHs). One of the major problems for the Mobile IP is frequent location update and high signaling overhea...
Demands to match security with performance in Web applications where access to shared data needs to be controlled dynamically make self-protecting security schemes attractive. Yet...
Anne V. D. M. Kayem, Patrick Martin, Selim G. Akl,...