We introduce a nominal actor-based language and study its expressive power. We have identified the presence/absence of fields as a relevant feature: the dynamic creation of names...
Frank S. de Boer, Mahdi Mahdi Jaghoori, Cosimo Lan...
We consider the problem of offloading secure access-controlled content from central origin servers to distributed caches so clients can access a proximal cache rather than the orig...
James Giles, Reiner Sailer, Dinesh C. Verma, Sures...
Abstract— Deploying world-scale pervasive applications usually requires substantial investments in server infrastructure. A better option is to use P2P techniques, because it dis...
Mirko Knoll, Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Torben W...
Abstract—This paper addresses the problem of streaming packetized media over a lossy packet network through an intermediate proxy server to a client, in a rate-distortion optimiz...
We consider the class of database programs and address the problem of minimizing the cost of their exchanges with the database server. This cost partly consists of query execution...