With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, websites have evolved from static pages to dynamic, interactive Web-based applications with the ability to replicate common desktop functi...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Loretta Guarino Reid, Richard ...
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
Privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) is an important topic to both industry and academia. In general there are two approaches to tackling PPDM, one is statistics-based and the oth...
Patrick Sharkey, Hongwei Tian, Weining Zhang, Shou...
Network coordinates provide a scalable way to estimate latencies among large numbers of hosts. While there are several algorithms for producing coordinates, none account for the f...
Jonathan Ledlie, Peter R. Pietzuch, Margo I. Seltz...
In many real-world applications, such as image retrieval, it would be natural to measure the distances from one instance to others using instance specific distance which captures ...