Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
As the network technology has been developed, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) such as Internet2, KOREN, KREONET2 and etc has been deployed to support bandwidth of Giga bps. And,...
: As more third-party software components are available in the commercial market, more people begin to use the component-based software engineering approach to developing component...
—The traditional formulation of the total value of information transfer is a multi-commodity flow problem. Here, each data source is seen as generating a commodity along a fixe...