— Peer selection for query routing is a core task in peer-to-peer networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems (like Gnutella) ignore this problem, leading to an abundance of netw...
: Web Services enable the creation of complex business activities through the cooperation of independently developed software programs. However, Web Services incur the risk of long...
Content-based image retrieval in astronomy needs methods that can deal with an image content made of noisy and diffuse structures. This motivates investigations on how information ...
: Many believe that today's Web has not yet reached the full potential which globally distributed systems may achieve in terms of information access and use. Realizing this po...
—We consider the problem of realizing several common communication structures in the all-optical Partitioned Optical Passive Stars (POPS) topology. We show that, often, the obvio...