In mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, a large percentage of the mobile peers typically do not provide any service to the network, thereby motivating incentive schemes for...
We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
Over the last five years, a range of projects have focused on progressively more elaborated techniques for adaptive news delivery. However, the adaptation process in these systems...
Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky, Jonathan Grady, D...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
Dynamic provisioning systems change application capacity in order to use enough resources to accommodate current load. Rejuvenation systems detect/forecast software failures and te...
Raquel Vigolvino Lopes, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco ...