Studies of information seeking and workplace collaboration often find that social relationships are a strong factor in determining who collaborates with whom. Social networks prov...
Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. However, efficiently mat...
Jik-Soo Kim, Peter J. Keleher, Michael A. Marsh, B...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
The web has become an important medium for news delivery and consumption. Fresh content about a variety of topics and events is constantly being created and published on the web b...
There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to de...