System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
The use of Virtual Environments as a user interface can be important for certain types of applications, especially in the fields of education and entertainment. These synthetic wo...
This paper presents a discussion of simulation-related issues arising in the study of self-similar network traffic with respect to its effect and control. Selfsimilar traffic has...
An important class of heuristics for constraint satisfaction problems works by sampling information during search in order to inform subsequent decisions. One of these strategies, ...
Reputation mechanisms for detecting and punishing free-riders in ad hoc networks depend on the local detection of selfish behavior. Although naive selfish strategies based on drop...
Bo Wang 0001, Sohraab Soltani, Jonathan K. Shapiro...