Large scale systems such as the Grid need scalable and efficient resource allocation mechanisms to fulfil the requirements of its participants and applications while the whole s...
Recent research has identified significant vulnerabilities in recommender systems. Shilling attacks, in which attackers introduce biased ratings in order to influence future recom...
Sheng Zhang, Amit Chakrabarti, James Ford, Fillia ...
This paper presents a novel method for optimizing sliding window based continuous queries. We deal with two categories of aggregation operations: stepwise aggregation (e.g. COUNT) ...
We investigate the optimal selection of minimum contention window values to achieve proportional fairness in a multirate IEEE 802.11e test-bed. Unlike other approaches, the propos...