: We consider a game played between a hider, who hides a static object in one of several possible positions in a bounded planar region, and a searcher who wishes to reach the objec...
For nearest neighbor search, a user queries a server for nearby points of interest (POIs) with his/her location information. Our aim is to protect the user’s sensitive informatio...
This paper describes an architecture for sharing data in XML format through a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which interconnects devices ranging from high-end servers to mobile devic...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) of servers, where any two quorums intersect. Quorumbased protocols underly modern edge-computing architectures and throughput-sca...
Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems cannot effectively share their files if they are poorly described. Terms one user employs to describe an instance of a file may not be t...
Dongmei Jia, Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir ...