Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
In this paper, we examine the problem of large-volume data dissemination via overlay networks. A natural way to maximize the throughput of an overlay multicast session is to split...
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...
The number of location-aware mobile devices has been rising for several years. As this trend continues, these devices may be able to use their location information to provide inte...
Security must be a first class citizen in the design of large scale, interacting, software applications, at early and all stages of the lifecycle, for accurate and precise policy ...
Thuong Doan, Steven A. Demurjian, T. C. Ting, Andr...