In this paper, we model the cost incurred by each peer participating in a peer-to-peer network. Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate,...
We propose a new cryptographic technique, Acknowledgment Compression, permitting senders of multicast data to verify that all interested parties have either received the data or l...
Given a planar triangulation all of whose faces are initially white, we study the problem of colouring the faces black one by one so that the boundary between black and white faces...
In this contribution we propose a generic service for realtime access to context-based music information such as lyrics or score data. In our web-based client-server scenario, a c...
In this case study I argue for the usage of a machine-oriented controlled natural language as interface language to knowledge systems. Instead of using formal languages that are di...