In the present paper, we propose a novel area management method based on the concept of “pressure”. Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA) is a dynamically reconfigurable architectur...
Autonomic systems are needed to self-manage the increasing complexity of pervasive communications access and the ubiquitous computing services it offers to humans. Policy based go...
Kevin Feeney, Karl Quinn, David Lewis, Declan O'Su...
This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
Designing an optimal overlay communication network for a set of processes on the Internet is a central problem of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Such a network defines membership a...