The IST project Cuidado, which started in January 2001, aims at producing the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The...
Abstract. Distributed or peer-to-peer storage solutions rely on the introduction of redundant data to be fault-tolerant and to achieve high reliability. One way to introduce redund...
In ergodic MDPs we consider stationary distributions of policies that coincide in all but n states, in which one of two possible actions is chosen. We give conditions and formulas...
The distribution of keys by a hash function as used in hash search with chaining is studied by considering the distribution of keys a random function from keys to buckets would gi...
Abstract. For large distributed systems built from inexpensive components, one expects to see incessant failures. This paper proposes two models for such faults and analyzes two we...