Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Trust plays important roles in diverse decentralized environments, including our society at large. Computational trust models help to, for instance, guide users’ judgements in o...
Xin Liu, Anwitaman Datta, Krzysztof Rzadca, Ee-Pen...
The security demands on modern system administration are enormous and getting worse. Chief among these demands, administrators must monitor the continual ongoing disclosure of sof...
Mehran Bozorgi, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, G...
Cell phones are increasingly being used as common clients for a wide suite of distributed, database-centric healthcare applications in developing regions. This is particularly tru...
Arvind Kumar, Amey Purandare, Jay Chen, Arthur Mea...