The design of large-scale, distributed, performance-sensitive systems presents numerous challenges due to their networkcentric nature and stringent quality of service (QoS) requir...
Reputation-based mechanisms and policies are vulnerable to the submission of untruthful ratings. In this paper, we define and analyze a game-theoretic model that captures the dyn...
The understanding of the structure of a software system can be improved by analyzing the system’s evolution during development. Visualizations of software history that provide o...
Abstract. Empirical hardness models are a recent approach for studying NP-hard problems. They predict the runtime of an instance using efficiently computable features. Previous res...
The statistical analysis of Chinese stock market fluctuations modeled by the interacting particle systems has been done in this paper. The contact model and voter model of the inte...