Abstract. Edge-server architectures are widely used to improve webapplication performance for non-transactional data. However, their use with transactional data is complicated by t...
Today’s applications are highly mobile; we download software from the Internet, machine executable code arrives attached to electronic mail, and Java applets increase the functi...
In the context of distributed multimedia applications involving multicast to a large number of users, a single quality of service level may not be appropriate for all participants....
—The increasing deployment of wireless access technology, along with the emergence of high speed integrated service networks, such as ATM, promises to provide mobile users with u...
Many real-world problems are characterized by complex relational structure, which can be succinctly represented in firstorder logic. However, many relational inference algorithms ...