The idea of using user preferences to assist with information filtering and with providing the most “relevant” answers to queries has recently received some attention from th...
Organisations increasingly use the Internet to offer their own services and to utilise the services of others. This naturally leads to information sharing across organisational bo...
Nick Cook, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheat...
Abstract-- We propose a framework for decentralized path selection and on-demand wavelength channel provisioning in WDM networks with routing constraints. Within this framework, th...
With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, many new server services are distributed in nature. We evaluated one hundred deployed systems and found that over a one-yea...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, Paul Luse, Peng-Ju...
Replication is a commonly proposed solution to problems of scale associated with distributed services. However, when a service is replicated, each client must be assigned a server...