In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
As the number of information in the Internet constantly increases and the complexity of systems rapidly grows, locating and manipulating complex data has become a difficult task. W...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of ap...
Steven Willmott, Josep M. Pujol, Ulises Cort&eacut...
With the proliferation of geographic data and resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for integration services that allow a transparent access to massive reposit...
The synthesis theory for spatial linkage systems can be formulated in a way that is compatible with the geometric design of serial and parallel chain robotic systems. Mechanism de...