: A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors are compatible with its original col...
Lijun Mei, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Robert G. Merkel
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and Random Peer Sampling (RPS) provide important and complementary services in the area of P2P overlay networks. DHTs achieve efficient lookup whil...
A (randomized, anonymous) voting rule maps any multiset of total orders (aka. votes) over a fixed set of alternatives to a probability distribution over these alternatives. A voti...
—The distributed source coding problem is considered when the sensors, or encoders, are under Byzantine attack; that is, an unknown group of sensors have been reprogrammed by a m...
In this paper, we consider hybrid peer-to-peer systems where users form an unstructured peer-to-peer network with the purpose of assisting a server in the distribution of data. We...