Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Service-oriented computing paradigm encourages the use of dynamic binding of application requirements to the resources needed to fulfill application tasks. Especially in pervasive...
Nanjangud C. Narendra, Umesh Bellur, S. K. Nandy, ...
hyperobjects (reducers) provide a linguistic abstraction for dynamic multithreading that allows different branches of a parallel program to maintain coordinated local views of the...
I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Aamir Shafi, Charles E. Leis...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
A distinguishing characteristic of wireless sensor networks is the opportunity to exploit characteristics of the application at lower layers. This approach is encouraged by device...