In a system proposed by Plaxton, Rajaraman and Richa (PRR), the expected cost of accessing a replicated object was proved to be asymptotically optimal for a static set of nodes an...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
This paper presents an efficient parallel information retrieval (IR) system which provides fast information service for the Internet users on lowcost high-performance PC-NOW enviro...
The current implementation of out-of-band control in ATM networks inhibits their successful exploitation. The confusion in signalling protocols between application services and th...
The advent of electronic commerce enables retailers to set prices via automated algorithms. This paper employs the method of experimental economics to examine human behavior in en...