Cooperation and competition are important subjects in social and economical studies. Similar dynamics exists in large-scale online communities. In this paper, we present a quantita...
We show a tight lower bound of (N log log N) on the number of transmission required to compute the parity of N bits (with constant error) in a network of N randomly placed sensors...
Chinmoy Dutta, Yashodhan Kanoria, D. Manjunath, Ja...
We use a reliably annotated corpus to compare metrics of coherence based on Centering Theory with respect to their potential usefulness for text structuring in natural language ge...
Nikiforos Karamanis, Massimo Poesio, Chris Mellish...
This paper addresses two important challenges for current P2P systems, namely churn and selfishness. First, we report on a system [19] whose desirable properties (small peer degre...
Stefan Schmid, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Rog...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...