Web caches play an important role in improving the surfing experience of Web clients and reducing the network traffic seen by Web servers. Accurate analytical models of Web caches ...
Web services, service-oriented, and service-discovery architectures help developers solve complex business cases, reduce costs, risks, and time-to-market. The task of developers i...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...
Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these compan...