Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured ...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Many emerging mobile wireless applications depend upon secure group communications, in which data is encrypted and the group's data encryption key is changed whenever a membe...
Chun Zhang, Brian DeCleene, James F. Kurose, Donal...
Collaborative filtering (CF) is valuable in e-commerce, and for direct recommendations for music, movies, news etc. But today's systems have several disadvantages, including ...
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...