Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
The presence of Network Address Translation (NAT) is a hindrance when accessing services within home networks, because NAT breaks the end-to-end connectivity model of the Internet ...
Radial basis functions (RBFs) have found important applications in areas such as signal processing, medical imaging, and neural networks since the early 1980's. Several appli...
In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
What is a cloud application precisely? In this paper, we formulate a computing cloud as a kind of graph, a computing resource such as services or intellectual property access righ...