More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
Abstract. Small-world networks are currently present in many distributed applications and can be built augmenting a base network with long-range links using a probability distribut...
Despite many sensor, hardware, networking, and software advances, it is still quite difficult to build effective and reliable context-aware applications. We propose to build a con...
Biological studies rely heavily on large collections of species observations. All of these collections cannot be compiled by biology professionals alone. Skilled amateurs can assi...
YuanYuan Yu, Jeannie A. Stamberger, Aswath Manohar...
An understanding of the topological structure of the Internet is needed for quite a number of networking tasks, e.g., making decisions about peering relationships, choice of upstr...