Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
We analyse the corpus of user relationships of the Slashdot technology news site. The data was collected from the Slashdot Zoo feature where users of the website can tag other use...
Containing much valuable information, networks such as the World Wide Web, social networks and metabolic networks draw increasingly attention in scientific communities. Network cl...
A standing question in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and User Modeling in general is what is the appropriate level of model granularity (how many skills to model) and h...
Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan, Brigham Ande...
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...