Recent progress in active measurement techniques has made it possible to estimate end-to-end path available bandwidth. However, how to efficiently obtain available bandwidth info...
Current mechanisms for evaluating the trustworthiness of an agent within an electronic marketplace depend either on using a history of interactions or on recommendations from othe...
Ronald Ashri, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Jordi Sabater...
Interface formalisms are able to model both the input requirements and the output behavior of system components; they support both bottom-up component-based design, and top-down de...
Luca de Alfaro, Leandro Dias da Silva, Marco Faell...
A P2P network that is overlayed over Internet can consist of thousands, or even millions of nodes. To analyze the performance of a P2P network, or an algorithm or protocol designed...
Abstract. Web-based applications are the most common form of distributed systems that have gained a lot of attention in the past ten years. Today many of us are relying on scores o...