Query result caching is an important mechanism for search engine efficiency. In this study, we first review several query features that are used to determine the contents of a sta...
— End-to-end transport protocols such as TCP perform poorly in mobile environments, primarily due to their inability to cope with the dynamics incurred by node mobility. We re-co...
Simon Heimlicher, Rainer Baumann, Martin May, Bern...
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
Distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGAs) designed for the Internet have to take its high communication cost into consideration. For island model GAs, the migration topology has a maj...
The use of feedback control theory for performance guarantees in QoS-aware systems has gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate merging, within a singl...
Ying Lu 0002, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lu...