—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...
Distributed stream query services must simultaneously process a large number of complex, continuous queries with stringent performance requirements while utilizing distributed pro...
Sangeetha Seshadri, Bhuvan Bamba, Brian F. Cooper,...
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
QoS (Quality of Service) support in Web services is an important issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client and, in addition, improves server utilization...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...