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ICDCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems
This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
Frank Siqueira, Vinny Cahill
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
TBLB Algorithm for Servicing Real-Time Multimedia Traffic Streams
In this paper, we propose to use a simple packet servicing algorithm suitable for servicing bursty real-time multimedia traffic streams in packet-switched networks. These real-tim...
William K. Wong, Victor C. M. Leung
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Parallel Co-evolutionary Metaheuristic
In order to show that the parallel co-evolution of di erent heuristic methods may lead to an e cient search strategy, we have hybridized three heuristic agents of complementary beh...
Vincent Bachelet, El-Ghazali Talbi
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Interactive Internet search: keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms compared
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
Peter Bruza, Robert McArthur, Simon Dennis
AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...