Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective deals with the emerging design trend that transcends traditional communication layers for performance gains in …
Classifying objects into categories at different granularity levels, establishing links between known objects, and discovering clues between known and unknown objects are essential …
The concept of content delivery (also known as content distribution) is be- coming increasingly important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access …
The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the usage of the World Wide Web. The Web has grown so fast that it seems to be becoming an unusable and slow behemoth. Web caching …
While the web itself is about twenty years old, businesses are still impleme- ing the technology into the fabric of the business model. The background section will focus on …
In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the bandwidth demand for data traffic is exploding. Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) …
This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were presented during the fourteenth edition of the IFIP TC10/WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large …
The area of Virtual Organizations as a main component of the new discipline of Collaborative Networks has been the focus of research globally. The fast evolution of the information …
In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers experience increased organizational complexity. Companies are functionally distributed, many across the globe. …
Collaborative Network Organizations (CNO) corresponds to a very active and steadily growing area. For instance, Virtual enterprises/Virtual Organizations (PVC) suggest new ways of …
