The Internet has evolved from an information space to a market space with thousands of electronic storefronts, auctions and other commercial services. This market space is not with...
Rosane Maria Martins, Magali Ribeiro Chaves, Luci ...
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has caused serious performance degradation on the Internet. This paper o ers an end-to-end approach to improving Web performance by collecti...
Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer R...
We apply the concept of network-consciousness to image compression, an approach that does not simply optimize compression, but which optimizes overall performance when compressed i...
Electronic Commerce is a field of application that is distributed by nature where different parties share information and work concurrently and cooperatively on objects, potential...
Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot proje...
Marco A. Figueiredo, Paola Prado, Mauro A. Câ...