Scheduling dialogs, during which people negotiate the times of appointments, are common in everyday life. This paper reports the results of an in-depth empirical investigation of ...
Recently proposed scalable on-demand streaming protocols have previously been evaluated using a system cost measure termed the "required server bandwidth". For the scala...
Haonan Tan, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon, Hongfe...
Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging from airport and supermarket waiting lines to comp...
With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learn...
Power consumption has become an increasingly important constraint in high-performancecomputing systems, shifting the focus from peak performance towards improving power efficiency...