Traditional online social network sites use a single monolithic "friends" relationship to link users. However, users may have more in common with strangers, suggesting t...
—Popular online services such as social networks, e-commerce and bidding are routinely hosted in large-scale data centers. Group communication systems (e.g., multicast) and distr...
Karthik Nagaraj, Hitesh Khandelwal, Charles Edwin ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a system of overlay networks such that participants can potentially take symmetrical roles. This translates itself into a design based on the philosophy of L...
Large volumes of content (bookmarks, reviews, videos, etc.) are currently being created on the "Social Web", i.e. on Web 2.0 community sites, and this content is being a...
Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Aidan Finn, Stefan ...
Abstract— Although direct reciprocity (Tit-for-Tat) contribution systems have been successful in reducing freeloading in peerto-peer overlays, it has been shown that, unless the ...
Raul Landa, David Griffin, Richard G. Clegg, Eleni...