Many tasks require users to extract information from diverse sources, to edit or process this information locally, and to explore how the end results are affected by changes in th...
Min-max functions are dynamic programming operators of zero-sum deterministic games with finite state and action spaces. The problem of computing the linear growth rate of the or...
Backup of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred to either the website or its webmaster. We introduce “lazy preservation” – digital p...
Delay tolerant and mobile ad hoc networks, present considerable challenges to the development of protocols and systems. In particular, the challenge of being able to cope with the...
Client-server applications often do not scale well when a large number of clients access a single server. To solve this, a new trend is to allow a client to download data from oth...