Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
Reluctance of data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting a mutually beneficia...
Ashish P. Sanil, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerom...
: We develop and study the concept of dataflow process networks as used for example by Kahn to suit exact computation over data types related to real numbers, such as continuous fu...
— This work investigates three aspects: (a) a network vulnerability as the non-uniform vulnerable-host distribution, (b) threats, i.e., intelligent worms that exploit such a vuln...
Content-Based Image Retrieval is a challenging problem both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we present a flexible cluster-and-search approach that is able ...
Anderson Rocha, Jurandy Almeida, Mario A. Nascimen...