We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Many large content publishers use multiple content distribution networks to deliver their content, and many industrial systems have become available to help a broader set of conte...
Hongqiang Harry Liu, Ye Wang, Yang Richard Yang, H...
Execution behavior of a Java application can be nondeterministic due to concurrent threads of execution, thread scheduling, and variable network delays. This nondeterminism in Jav...
This paper describes the operational characteristics of “CompTorrent”, a general purpose distributed computing platform that provides a low entry cost to creating new distribut...
In this paper, we are concerned with the distributed monitoring of P2P systems. We introduce the P2P Monitor system and a new declarative language, namely P2PML, for specifying mo...