User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
—Many sensor network protocols in the literature implicitly assume that sensor nodes are deployed uniformly inside a simple geometric region. When the real deployment deviates fr...
An important security issue in DHT-based structured overlay networks is to provide anonymity to the storage nodes. Compromised routing tables in those DHTs leak information about ...
: We develop a new approach to combinatorial games (e.g., chess, Go, checkers, Chomp, Nim) that unveils connections between such games and nonlinear phenomena commonly seen in natu...
Abstract. As software systems become bigger and more complex, software developers need to cope with a growing amount of information and knowledge. The knowledge generated during th...