Recently, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as an attractive solution to enable large-scale content distribution without requiring major infrastructure investments. While s...
Thomas Karagiannis, Pablo Rodriguez, Konstantina P...
Quality of service (QoS) is becoming an attractive feature for high-performance networks and parallel machines because it could allow a more efficient use of resources. Deadline-...
Abstract. In ubiquitous computing environments there are an increasing number and variety of devices that can generate context data. The challenge is to timely acquire, process, an...
The frequency and severity of a number of recent intrusions involving data theft and leakages has shown that online users’ trust, voluntary or not, in the ability of third partie...
Important design problems are raised in developing software for amateur users, a group distinguished here from novices. The authors argue that these design problems can be approac...