We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
A wireless sensor network is a special kind of ad-hoc network with distributed sensing and processing capability that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as environm...
Marcos Augusto M. Vieira, Luiz Filipe M. Vieira, L...
Distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) applications often possess stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Designing middleware for DRE applications poses several challe...
Arvind S. Krishna, Raymond Klefstad, Douglas C. Sc...
Power management in data centers has become an increasingly important concern. Large server installations are designed to handle peak load, which may be significantly larger than...
Vivek Sharma, Arun Thomas, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ke...