One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Multi-cloud is becoming a popular cloud ecosystem because it allows enterprise users to
share the workload across multiple cloud service providers to achieve high-quality services …

Outsourcing data to a third-party administrative control, as is done in cloud computing, gives
rise to security concerns. The data compromise may occur due to attacks by other users and …

A commonly employed abstraction for studying the object placement problem for the
purpose of Internet content distribution is that of a distributed replication group. In this work …

Image segmentation is one of the most critical tasks in image analysis. Thresholding is
definitely one of the most popular segmentation approaches. Among thresholding methods …

P2P-Video-on-Demand (P2P-VoD) is a popular Internet service which aims to provide a
scalable and high-quality service to users. At the same time, content providers of P2P-VoD …

As we delve deeper into the 'Digital Age', we witness an explosive growth in the volume,
velocity, and variety of the data available on the Internet. For example, in 2012 about 2.5 …

Data replication is becoming a popular technology in many fields such as cloud storage,
Data grids and P2P systems. By replicating files to other servers/nodes, we can reduce …

Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing
requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a …

The problem of selecting an optimal fragmentation schema of a data warehouse is more
challenging compared to that in relational and object databases. This challenge is due to the …