in Progress – Extended Abstract Word count: 3124 Effectively managing IT service centers such as call centers, computerized diagnostic imaging facilities, data centers, e-commerc...
—Peer-to-peer computing, involving the participation of thousands of general purpose, public computers, has established itself as a viable paradigm for executing looselycoupled, ...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
This paper presents a new model for understanding the appearance of objects that exhibit both body and surface reflection under realistic illumination. Specifically, the model rep...
Bruce A. Maxwell, Richard M. Friedhoff, Casey A. S...