In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
—With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there are growing evidence that the current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many...
Qinyuan Feng, Yan Lindsay Sun, Ling Liu, Yafei Yan...
Many users face surveillance of their Internet communications and a significant fraction suffer from outright blocking of certain destinations. Anonymous communication systems a...
Amir Houmansadr, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Matthew Caesa...
With the gaining popularity of remote storage (e.g. in the Cloud), we consider the setting where a small, protected local machine wishes to access data on a large, untrusted remot...
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...