The EU Services Directive aims at easing the burdens for the EU's citizens to open up new businesses by providing a single-point-of-contact for the complete business lifecycle...
The paradigm of information-centric networking subsumes recent approaches to integrate content replication services into a future Internet layer. Current concepts foster either a ...
We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found...
As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
The tradeoffs between consistency, performance, and availability are well understood. Traditionally, however, designers of replicated systems have been forced to choose from eithe...