—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Social tagging can provide rich semantic information for largescale retrieval in music discovery. Such collaborative intelligence, however, also generates a high degree of tags un...
Zhendong Zhao, Xinxi Wang, Qiaoliang Xiang, Andy M...
Lightweight formal modeling and automatic analysis were used to explore the design of the Intentional Naming System (INS), a new scheme for resource discovery in a dynamic network...
Software components are modular and can enable post-deployment update, but their high overhead in runtime and memory is prohibitive for many embedded systems. This paper proposes ...
The responsiveness of networked applications is limited by communications delays, making network distance an important parameter in optimizing the choice of communications peers. S...