Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
In this digital era, digital multimedia contents are often transmitted over networks without any protection. This raises serious security concerns since the receivers/subscribers ...
Wan-Yi Sabrina Lin, Steven Tjoa, H. Vicky Zhao, K....
Spyware, Adware, Bots. In each case, there is significant evidence that there is an increasing financial motivation behind the writing and distribution of these programs. In thi...
: This paper presents the MINERVA project that protoypes a distributed search engine based on P2P techniques. MINERVA is layered on top of a Chord-style overlay network and uses a ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
We develop an algorithm for merging plans that are represented in a richly expressive language. Speci cally, weare concerned with plans that have i quantitative temporal constrain...
Ioannis Tsamardinos, Martha E. Pollack, John F. Ho...