The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...
Social networking sites and other examples of online social spaces have greatly expanded their members’ opportunities for self expression and social interaction, while creating ...
The success of BitTorrent has fostered the development of variants to its basic components. Some of the variants adopt greedy approaches aiming at exploiting the intrinsic altruis...
In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
As the personal computer becomes a more integral part of the faculty member’s job, the increasing level of day-to-day computer support - often without increases in full-time sta...