In P2P file sharing systems, free-riders who use others’ resources without sharing their own cause system-wide performance degradation. Existing techniques to counter freerider...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...
Whereas traditional Desktop Grids rely on centralized servers for data management, some recent progress has been made to enable distributed, large input data, using to peer-to-peer...
The point placement problem is to determine the positions of a linear set of points, P = {p1, p2, p3, . . . , pn}, uniquely, up to translation and reflection, from the fewest poss...