As experimentation becomes one of the de-facto approaches for benchmarking, researchers are turning to testbeds to test, review and verify their work. As a result, several research...
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks like Gnutella improve some shortcomings of Conventional Search Engines (CSE) such as centralized and outdated indexing by distributing the search engin...
The increased need for Quality of Service (QoS) in today’s networks has concentrated a lot of research and implementation efforts. Particular interest exists for the exploitatio...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...