Research on performance, robustness, and evolution of the global Internet is fundamentally handicapped without accurate and thorough knowledge of the nature and structure of the c...
Xenofontas A. Dimitropoulos, Dmitri V. Krioukov, M...
The world-wide-web (WWW) today consists of distinct, isolated islands of data and metadata. In the near future we expect the availability of a critical mass of data and metadata f...
Wolfgang Ketter, Arun Batchu, Gary Berosik, Dan Mc...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
This paper contributes to the analysis of the question how altruistic behaviour can be in an agent’s own interest. The question is addressed by involving a temporal dimension in ...
Tibor Bosse, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, David We...
The open feature of peer-to-peer systems invites the spread of the malfunctioning data. Additional reputation systems are constructed to guarantee the data authenticity. One chall...