Twitter, a microblogging service less than three years old, commands more than 41 million users as of July 2009 and is growing fast. Twitter users tweet about any topic within the...
Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue B. M...
“Smart Things” are commonly understood as wireless ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous, special purpose computing appliances, usually interacting with their environment impli...
We consider a single multi-server memoryless service station. Servers have heterogeneous service rates. Arrivals are routed to one of the servers, and the routing decisions are no...
Abstract. A Web Service is commonly not an independent software entity, but plays a role in some business process. Hence, it depends on the services provided by external Web Servic...
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Lars Fran...
—Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interestin...
Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, Chr...