In this paper, we study the problem of utility maximization in P2P systems, in which aggregate application-specific utilities are maximized by running distributed algorithms on P2...
Minghua Chen, Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Ji...
Greylisting temporarily rejects mail from unknown sources on the theory that real mailers will retry while spamware won’t. I outline a taxonomy of greylisters and report some st...
Wide-area distributed applications are challenging to debug, optimize, and maintain. We present Wide-Area Project 5 (WAP5), which aims to make these tasks easier by exposing the c...
Patrick Reynolds, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogu...
Increasingly pervasive networks are leading towards a world where data is constantly in motion. In such a world, conventional techniques for query processing, which were developed...
Non-determinism of the thread schedule is a well-known problem in concurrent programming. However, other sources of non-determinism exist which cannot be controlled by an applicati...