In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speciï...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...
Background: The behaviour of biological systems can be deduced from their mathematical models. However, multiple sources of data in diverse forms are required in the construction ...
Peter Li, Joseph O. Dada, Daniel Jameson, Irena Sp...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
A power describes the ability of an agent to act in some way. While this notion of power is critical in the context of organisational dynamics, and has been studied by others in t...
The goal of this paper is to explore the effects of synchronization on distributed decision making processes. In particular, we examine the dynamics of a spatially distributed mul...