Content providers base their business on their ability to receive and answer requests from clients distributed across the Internet. Since disruptions in the flow of these request...
In Peer-to-Peer networks based on consistent hashing and ring topology each server is responsible for an interval chosen (pseudo-)randomly on a circle. The topology of the network...
Marcin Bienkowski, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Friedhel...
Ad auctions in sponsored search support"broad match"that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving mo...
Eyal Even-Dar, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan...
We investigate logics and equivalence relations that capture the qualitative behavior of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We present Qualitative Randomized Ctl (Qrctl): formulas o...
Luca de Alfaro, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Marco Faell...
We introduce the notion of resiliency policies in the context of access control systems. Such policies require an access control system to be resilient to the absence of users. An...