Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
This paper considers the effect of untyped attackers inside a distributed system where security is enforced by the type system. In previous work we introduced the Key-Based Decentr...
— We introduce an optimization framework called prioritized optimization control, in which a nested sequence of objectives are optimized so as not to conflict with higher-priori...
Abstract. If quality of service could be provided at the transport or the application layer, then it might be deployed simply by software upgrades, instead of requiring a complete ...
Client-server applications often do not scale well when a large number of clients access a single server. To solve this, a new trend is to allow a client to download data from oth...