We investigate the circumstances under which it is possible to discourage free-riding in a peer-to-peer system for resource-sharing by prioritizing resource allocation to peers wi...
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne,...
The emerging service grids bring together various distributed application-level services to a `market' for clients to request and enable the integration of services across di...
Hai Jin, Hanhua Chen, Jian Chen, Ping Kuang, Li Qi...
In this paper we develop models for and analyze several randomized work stealing algorithms in a dynamic setting. Our models represent the limiting behavior of systems as the numb...
Abstract— In this paper we propose centralized feedback control laws for mobile sensor networks so that sensor trajectories cover a given domain as uniformly as possible. The des...
In this paper we propose a domainindependent text segmentation method, which consists of three components. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is employed to compute words semantic ...