This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desire...
—Location-based Social Networks (LSNs) allow users to see where their friends are, to search location-tagged content within their social graph, and to meet others nearby. The rec...
Four per-session guarantees are proposed to aid users and applications of weakly consistent replicated data: Read Your Writes, Monotonic Reads, Writes Follow Reads, and Monotonic ...
Douglas B. Terry, Alan J. Demers, Karin Petersen, ...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...