Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for estimating the record selectivities of database queries. The real attribute value distribution is adaptively approximated by a curve...
This paper identifies application-aware adaptation as an essential capability of mobile clients, and provides an overview of Odyssey, an architecture that supports this capability...
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Brian Noble, Puneet Kumar,...
Existing organisational centred multi-agent systems regulate agents' activities. However, population/environmental changes may lead to a poor fullment of system's goals,...
The following article describes and discusses the suitability of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) for the employment with blind adaptation of the directional characteristic o...