A fault-scalable service can be configured to tolerate increasing numbers of faults without significant decreases in performance. The Query/Update (Q/U) protocol is a new tool t...
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. ...
People now routinely carry radio frequency identification (RFID) tags – in passports, driver’s licenses, credit cards, and other identifying cards – where nearby RFID reader...
Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar,...
The proliferation of new modes of communication and collaboration has resulted in an explosion of digital information. To turn this challenge into an opportunity, the IT industry ...
Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with collaborative unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. T...
Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Steven Kay, Qing Yang
—The growth of the Internet in the last years has been pushed by increasing requirements in terms of capacity, security and reliability. Moreover, improvements in multimedia appl...