—Although layered streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks has drawn great interest in recent years, there’s still a lack of systematical studies on its data scheduling...
Since the ARPAnet, network designers have built localized mechanisms for statistical multiplexing, load balancing, and failure resilience, often without understanding the broader ...
Damon Wischik, Mark Handley, Marcelo Bagnulo Braun
Algorithmic mechanism design considers distributed settings where the participants, termed agents, cannot be assumed to follow the protocol but rather their own interests. The pro...
Exception handling mechanisms have been around for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, modern exceptions systems are not very different from the early models. Programming languages ...
The progress towards programming methodologies that simplify the work of the programmer involves automating, whenever possible, activities that are secondary to the main task of d...