—The Internet has become a cost-effective vehicle for software development and release, particular in the free software community. Given the free nature of this software, there a...
Considerable research effort has recently been devoted to the design of structured peer-to-peer overlays, a term we use to encompass Content-Addressable Networks (CANs), Distribut...
We consider online scheduling of splittable tasks on parallel machines. In our model, each task can be split into a limited number of parts, that can then be scheduled independentl...
Uniform random sample is often useful in analyzing data. Usually taking a uniform sample is not a problem if the entire data resides in one location. However, if the data is distr...
This paper offers a local distributed algorithm for expectation maximization in large peer-to-peer environments. The algorithm can be used for a variety of well-known data mining...