Abstract. We study the impact of malicious synchronization on computer systems that serve customers periodically. Systems supporting automatic periodic updates are common in web se...
Mun Choon Chan, Ee-Chien Chang, Liming Lu, Peng So...
Finding the right pricing for music downloads is of ample importance to the recording industry and music download service providers. For the recently introduced music downloads, re...
Abstract—Information interaction is a crucial part of modern transportation activities. In this paper, we propose the idea of Vehicle-to-Passenger communication (V2P), which allo...
Nianbo Liu, Ming Liu, Jiannong Cao, Guihai Chen, W...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
With the evolving availability of wireless communication servicesand of affordable mobile devices such as notebooks or Personal Digital Assistants, mobile computing is becoming wid...