New technological trends lead to the increasing use of network technologies in automation. Especially the Ethernet with TCP/IP and wireless networks find growing acceptance. The r...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...
Product Distribution (PD) theory was recently developed as a framework for analyzing and optimizing distributed systems. In this paper we demonstrate its use for adaptive distribu...
The Internet is constantly growing, proposing more and more services and sources of information. Modeling personal preferences enables recommender systems to identify relevant subs...
This paper addresses the study of fundamental properties of stream-based content distribution services. We assume the presence of an overlay network with limited connectivity degre...