In an era that, searching the WWW for information becomes a tedious task, it is obvious that mainly search engines and other data mining mechanisms need to be enhanced with charact...
—With the advent of the Internet, searching for information became a fundamental part of our daily computing. When large storage devices were integrated to our personal computers...
Abstract—The online presence projected by a person is comprised of all the information about them available on the Internet. In online communities and social networking services,...
Ryan Wishart, Domenico Corapi, Anil Madhavapeddy, ...
Multi-tier architectures are widely used by internet applications. Guaranteeing the performance, and more generally the quality of service (QoS), of such applications remains a cr...
Abstract— Short TCP flows may suffer significant responsetime performance degradations during network congestion. Unfortunately, this creates an incentive for misbehavior by cl...