Peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems are vulnerable to free-riders, peers that use the system while providing little or no service to others and whose presence limit...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Jonathan K. Shapiro, Donald ...
With the advent of e-Commerce, enterprises can no longer rely on static business strategies. They have to be able to cope in dynamic and uncertain electronic environments, especia...
Following the decontamination metaphor for searching a graph, we introduce a cleaning process, which is related to both the chip-firing game and edge searching. Brushes (instead o...
Margaret-Ellen Messinger, Richard J. Nowakowski, P...
In completely symmetric systems that have homogeneous nodes (hosts, computers, or processors) with identical arrival processes, an optimal static load balancing scheme does not in...
While traditional mechanism design typically assumes isomorphism between the agents’ type- and action spaces, in many situations the agents face strict restrictions on their act...