Online collaboration and sharing is the central theme of many webbased services that create the so-called Web 2.0 phenomena. Using the Internet as a computing platform, many Web 2...
Jiangming Yang, Haixun Wang, Ning Gu, Yiming Liu, ...
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Disseminating a piece of information, or updates for a piece of information, has been shown to benefit greatly from simple randomized procedures, sometimes referred to as gossipi...
Augustin Chaintreau, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nikodin ...
— We show that different flavors of TCP may be viewed as implementations of age-based scheduling disciplines. By parameterizing the scheduling disciplines of interest we are abl...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...