Abstract. Traditionally, autonomic computing is envisioned as replacing the human factor in the deployment, administration and maintenance of computer systems that are ever more co...
The topic of the paper concerns the implementation and use of standards. The standards which are in focus in the paper include conceptual models and descriptions of the functionali...
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
We consider the file maintenance problem (also called the online labeling problem) in which n integer items from the set {1, . . . , r} are to be stored in an array of size m ≥...
Ad hoc routing protocols have been designed to efficiently reroute traffic when confronted with network congestion, faulty nodes, and dynamically changing topologies. The common d...