Due to their simplicity and effectiveness, gossip-based membership protocols have become the method of choice for maintaining partial membership in large P2P systems. A variety of...
Abstract--In this paper, we consider a novel problem referred to as term filtering with bounded error to reduce the term (feature) space by eliminating terms without (or with bound...
Compression has been advocated as one of the principles which pervades inductive inference and prediction - and, from there, it has also been recurrent in definitions and tests of...
A protocol for latency-insensitive design with early evaluation is presented. The protocol is based on a symmetric view of the system in which tokens carrying information move in ...
The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may...