— Recent proposals in multicast overlay construction have demonstrated the importance of exploiting underlying network topology. However, these topology-aware proposals often rel...
User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
The ability to record and account for the usage of computational resources in a standardised way across different systems from multiple administrative domains is a precursor to wi...
Connected world-widely distributed computers and data systems establish a global source of processing power and data, called a grid. Key properties of a grid are the fact that com...
— We propose a new scheme for content distribution of large files that is based on network coding. With network coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate...