— There is a growing interest among service providers to offer new services with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranties that are also resilient to failures. Supporting QoS connectio...
We present the design, correctness, and analysis of SONDe, a simple fully decentralized object deployment algorithm for highly requested systems. Given an object (service or data)...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Me...
We develop models of automated E-commerce techniques, which predict the economic outcomes of these decision mechanisms, including the price attained by a good and the resulting inc...
Streaming applications over Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have gained an enormous popularity. Success always implies increased concerns about security, protection, privacy and all the...
Gabriela Gheorghe, Renato Lo Cigno, Alberto Montre...
Web-based social systems enable new community-based opportunities for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services like search and advert...