Parallel and distributed heterogeneous computing systems may operate in an environment that undergoes unpredictable changes causing certain system performance features to degrade....
Abstract-- Most user cooperation protocols work in a timesharing manner, where each user transmits its own message and relays for the other at different segments of a time slot. We...
In this paper, we summarized recent work in modeling how users socially forage and search for information. One way to bridge between different communities of users is to diversify ...
We introduce a new type of graphical model called a `cumulative distribution network' (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. ...
— Peer selection for query routing is a core task in peer-to-peer networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems (like Gnutella) ignore this problem, leading to an abundance of netw...