: Traditional spatial indexes like R-tree usually assume the database is not updated frequently. In applications like location-based services and sensor networks, this assumption i...
Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers concentrat...
Programmers need mechanisms to store application specific data that persists multiple program runs. To accomplish this task, they usually have to deal with storage specific code...
The IEEE 802.16 standard (commonly known as WiMAX) which has emerged as a broadband wireless access technology, is capable of delivering very high data rates. However, providing p...
How to effectively allocate system resource to meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of Web servers is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme for aut...