To make a joint decision, agents (or voters) are often required to provide their preferences as linear orders. To determine a winner, the given linear orders can be aggregated acc...
— Many open source software (OSS) development projects use tools and models that come from heterogeneous sources. A project manager, who wants to analyze indicators for the state...
As data sources become larger and more complex, the ability to effectively explore and analyze patterns amongst varying sources becomes a critical bottleneck in analytic reasoning...
Ross Maciejewski, Stephen Rudolph, Ryan Hafen, Ahm...
Most peer-assisted media streaming systems have applied a design philosophy that uses a "mesh" topology of peers: each peer connects to a small number of neighboring peer...
Consistency maintenance (CM) techniques are a crucial part of many distributed systems, and are particularly important in networked games. In this paper we describe a framework of...