Research community on distributed systems, and in particular on peer-to-peer systems, needs tools for evaluating their own protocols and services, as well as against other protoco...
Abstract Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the onto...
The Internet today can be seen as a global market for electronic services. Each provider can offer its services, and customers can choose between several providers offering simila...
Abstract. We consider the issue of task assignment in a distributed system under heavy-tailed (ie. highly variable) workloads. A new adaptable approach called TAPTF (Task Assignmen...
We present a novel peer-to-peer backup technique that allows computers connected to the Internet to back up their data cooperatively: Each computer has a set of partner computers,...
Mark Lillibridge, Sameh Elnikety, Andrew Birrell, ...