Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

Broadcast is a scalable way of disseminating data because broadcasting an item satisfies all
outstanding client requests for it. However, because the transmission medium is shared …

Digital ecosystems offer cost-effective digital services that attract and benefit the species
within them (ie, humans, organizations, and computers). As a cornerstone technology for …

The emergence of mobile computing provides the ability to access information at any time
and place. However, as mobile computing environments have inherent factors like power …

Recent advances in computer and wireless communication technologies have increased
interest in push-based information systems in which a server repeatedly broadcasts data to …

Data broadcast is a promising technique to improve the bandwidth utilization and conserve
the power consumption in a mobile computing environment. In many applications, the data …

Wireless broadcast is very suitable for delivering information to a large user population. In
this paper, we concentrate on data allocation methods for multiple broadcast channels. To …

The issue of data broadcast has received much attention in mobile computing. A periodic
broadcast of frequently requested data can reduce the workload of the up-link channel and …

Wireless data broadcast is an efficient technique of disseminating data simultaneously to a
large number of mobile clients. In many information services, the users may query multiple …

Broadcast is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data to an unlimited number of
clients that are listening to a channel. Cyclically broadcasting data over the channel is a …