The use of good random numbers is essential to the integrity of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious i...
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
1 The unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems usually use a “blind search” method to find the requested data object by propagating a query to a number of peers randomly. In or...
We introduce a refinement strategy to bring the parallel performance analysis closer to the user. The analysis starts with a simple high-level performance model. It is based on fir...
Jan Lemeire, Andy Crijns, John Crijns, Erik F. Dir...
Abstract. In Aspect-Oriented Programming we decompose a problem into a number of functional components as well as a number of aspects and then we compose these components and aspec...