Node lookup mechanisms constitute an integral part of any overlay network, and hence also of anonymous communication networks. Today, most anonymizers use centralized directories, ...
— Considerable attention is now being devoted to the study of “complexity science” with the intent of discovering and applying universal laws of highly interconnected and evo...
: The concept of natural neighbors employs the notion of distance to define local neighborhoods in discrete data. Especially when querying and accessing large scale data, it is im...
Traditional methods for integrity checking in relational or deductive databases heavily rely on the assumption that data have integrity before the execution of updates. In this wa...
We revisit the peer selection problem of finding the most nearby peer from an initiating node. The metrics to assess the closeness between peers are hopcount and delay, respectivel...