Effective placement of resources used to support distributed services in the Internet depends on an accurate representation of Internet topology and routing. Representations of au...
The throughput of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems is typically capped by the users' aggregate upload bandwidth [1]. The drastic increase in the popularity of...
We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...
Reputation systems aggregate mutual feedback of interacting peers into a "reputation" metric for each participant. This is then available to prospective service "req...
— Next generation Digital Libraries (DLs) will offer an entire ensemble of systems and services designed to help users to easily find and access the information they are looking...