The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
In recommender systems, user ratings of items are often represented in terms of linguistic labels such as “fair” or “very good”. We investigate the potential of fuzzy sets...
The structured peer-to-peer system, which is based on the distributed hash table, offers an administration-free and fault-tolerant application-level overlay network. However, a ra...
This paper presents a system for autonomous information gathering in an information rich domain under time and monetary resource restrictions. The system gathers information using ...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems such as Gnutella and KaZaa are routinely used by millions of people for sharing music and many other files over the Internet, and they account for a si...