Integration--supporting multiple application classes with heterogeneous requirements--is an emerging trend in networks, file systems, and operating systems. In this paper, we eval...
— Grid computing requires network services beyond what is currently provided by the Best-Effort Internet. Among the different approaches towards network Quality of Service, aggre...
Abstract—Service replication is an effective way to address resource requirements and resource availability problem. Dynamic service selection enables clients to choose a server ...
Multi-tier architectures are widely used by internet applications. Guaranteeing the performance, and more generally the quality of service (QoS), of such applications remains a cr...
We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found...