Peer-to-peer technology is widely used for file sharing. In the past decade a number of
prototype peer-to-peer information retrieval systems have been developed. Unfortunately …

Workload variations on Internet platforms such as YouTube, Flickr, LastFM require novel
approaches to dynamic resource provisioning in order to meet QoS requirements, while …

This lecture introduces systematically into the problem of managing large data collections in
peer-to-peer systems. Search over large datasets has always been a key problem in peer-to …

In the emerging environment of the Internet of things (IoT), through the connection of billions
of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors to the Internet, applications will …

Infrastructures serving on-line applications experience dynamic workload variations
depending on diverse factors such as popularity, marketing, periodic patterns, fads, trends …

Geolocated social networks, combining traditional social networking features with
geolocation information, have grown tremendously over the last few years. Yet, very few …

The increased demand for online services of spatial information poses new challenges to
the combined filed of Computer Science and Geographic Information Science. Amongst …

Data replications is a typical strategy for improving access performance and data availability
in data grid systems. Current works on data replication in grid systems focus on the …

A super-peer based overlay network architecture for peer-to-peer (P2P) systems allows for
some nodes, known as the super-peers, that are more resource-endowed than others, to …

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most highly discussed topics both in the
academic community and in the computing industry. Many big computer industry players …