Abstract--This paper seeks to understand how network failures affect the availability of service delivery across wide-area networks (WANs) and to evaluate classes of techniques for...
Bharat Chandra, Michael Dahlin, Lei Gao, Amol Naya...
An important question in behavioral epidemiology and public health is to understand how individual behavior is affected by illness and stress. Although changes in individual behav...
This paper discusses the application of robotic technologies to an evacuation assistance task. We describe how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue ...
The evolution of collaboration and communication in communities of individuals is a puzzling problem for a wide range of scientific disciplines, spanning from evolutionary theory ...
According to the database outsourcing model, a data owner delegates database functionality to a thirdparty service provider, which answers queries received from clients. Authentic...