As mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs or mobile phones, are getting more and more ubiquitous and are able to communicate with each other via wireless technologies, the paradigm...
We extend a torus-based coterie structure for distributed mutual exclusion to allow k multiple entries in a critical section. In the original coterie, the system nodes are logical...
We present a practical approach to generate stochastic anisotropic samples with Poisson-disk characteristic over a two-dimensional domain. In contrast to isotropic samples, we unde...
Louis Feng, Ingrid Hotz, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. ...
Knowledge discovery on social network data can uncover latent social trends and produce valuable findings that benefit the welfare of the general public. A growing amount of resea...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...