In recent years, the peer-to-peer paradigm has gained momentum in several application areas: file-sharing and VoIP applications have been able to attract millions of end users, w...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...
In this paper, we present a Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) policy for problems characterized by a highly irregular search tree, whereby no reliable workload prediction is available....
Sourcing, or the question of what a company should carry out in-house and what should be acquired elsewhere, has been discussed for quite some time. This paper addresses the sourc...
The problem of supporting the secure execution of potentially malicious third-party applications has received a considerable amount of attention in the past decade. In this paper ...