An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
Abstract. Users need know nothing of the internals of distributed applications that are performing well. However, when performance flags or fails, a depiction of system behavior f...
We present a flexible framework for throttling attackers in peerto-peer media streaming systems. In such systems, selfish nodes (e.g., free riders) and malicious nodes (e.g., DoS ...
Abstract. In this paper we present an implementation using XML and Java (XSHAAD) based on a modular architecture of SHAAD to support a web-based Adaptive Hypermedia System. This ar...