Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
Credit risk has always been an important issue for banks
and other financial intermediaries. A reliable and consistent
computing system is necessary to simplify the decision
mak...
S. Bonura, V. Morreale, G. Cammarata, F. Cantore,...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
We describe a general-purpose distributed system capable of traceback of malicious flow trajectories in the wide area despite possible source IP spoofing. Our system requires th...