In large social networks, nodes (users, entities) are influenced by others for various reasons. For example, the colleagues have strong influence on one's work, while the fri...
— To share and exchange the files among Internet users, Peerto-Peer (P2P) applications build another layer of overlay networks on top of the Internet Infrastructure. In P2P fil...
Zhiyong Xu, D. Stefanescu, Honggang Zhang, Laxmi N...
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...
Several predictive systems are nowadays vital for operations and decision support. The quality of these systems is most of the time defined by their average accuracy which has lo...
In this paper we examine how copyright protection of digital items can be securely managed in a 3G mobile phone and other devices. First, the basic concepts, strategies, and requi...