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, ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have received great attention for sharing and searching information in large user communities. The open and anonymous nature of P2P networks is one of ...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Debora Donato, Carlos Cas...
Task-PIOA is a modeling framework for distributed systems with both probabilistic and nondeterministic behaviors. It is suitable for cryptographic applications because its task-bas...
Ran Canetti, Ling Cheung, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, Nan...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
Traditional reliability measures for computer systems can be classi ed into Computer-Centric or Application-Centric categories. The former concentrate on the hardware resources whi...