This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
A new paradigm in video streaming is emerging, that of personal video servers in the home streaming video to remote clients on the Internet. The potential impact of such technolog...
Rabin Karki, Thangam Seenivasan, Mark Claypool, Ro...
We study distributed content replication networks formed voluntarily by selfish autonomous users, seeking access to information objects that originate from distant servers. Each us...
Gerasimos G. Pollatos, Orestis Telelis, Vassilis Z...
In this paper, we consider a discrete-time finite-capacity queue with Bernoulli arrivals and batch services. In this queue, the single server has a variable service capacity and s...
Xeung W. Yi, Nam K. Kim, Bong K. Yoon, Kyung C. Ch...
Play-on-demand is usually regarded as a feasible access mode for web content (including streaming video, web pages and so on), web services and some Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) a...