Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
Dynamic optimization has the potential to adapt the program’s behavior at run-time to deliver performance improvements over static optimization. Dynamic optimization systems usu...
Abstract—While measures such as raw compute performance and system capacity continue to be important factors for evaluating cluster performance, such issues as system reliability...
William M. Jones, John T. Daly, Nathan DeBardelebe...
Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server plat...