Digital libraries have been rather successful in supporting learning activities by providing learners with access to information and knowledge. However, this level of support is pa...
Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Zehua Liu, John G. Hedberg...
With the rapid development of information technology, dramatic changes have been taken place in the fundamental ways that people acquire and disseminate knowledge. Various e-Learni...
Hai Jin, Zuoning Yin, Xudong Yang, Fucheng Wang, J...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
We introduce obstruction-freedom, a new nonblocking property for shared data structure implementations. This property is strong enough to avoid the problems associated with locks,...
Energy constrained systems such as sensor networks can increase their usable lifetimes by extracting energy from their environment. However, environmental energy will typically no...