Many peer-assisted content-distribution systems reward a peer based on the amount of data that this peer serves to others. However, validating that a peer did so is, to our knowled...
Michael K. Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zheng...
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
The requirements to system and software development tools brought up by the automotive industry differ from the requirements that other customers have. The important catchwords he...
One of the main issues for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems is to continuously localize the user and to detect his/her identity in order to provide dedicated services. A video-r...
Alessio Dore, Andrea F. Cattoni, Carlo S. Regazzon...
The notion of functional or modular dependency is fundamental to understand the architecture and inner workings of any software system. In this paper, we propose to extend that no...