We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
Many websites with a large user base, e.g., websites of nonprofit organizations, do not have the financial means to install large web-servers or use specialized content distributi...
— Coalescence is the problem of isolated mobile robots independently searching for peers with the goal of forming a single connected network. This is important because communicat...
Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefo...
This paper studies the problem of balancing the demand for content in a peer-to-peer network across heterogeneous peer nodes that hold replicas of the content. Previous decentraliz...