It is now common for IPTV systems attracting millions of users to be based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. In such systems, each channel is typically associated with one P2P ...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Merrer, Yaning Liu,...
Ever-increasing complexity of large-scale applications and continuous increases in sizes of the data they process make the problem of maximizing performance of such applications a...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son, Mustafa Karak&o...
Background: External stimulations of cells by hormones, cytokines or growth factors activate signal transduction pathways that subsequently induce a re-arrangement of cellular gen...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...