In the Internet today, users and applications must often make decisions based on the performance they expect to receive from other Internet hosts. For example, users can often vie...
Abstract--Applications involving the dissemination of information directly relevant to humans (e.g., service advertising, news spreading, environmental alerts) often rely on publis...
Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Gian...
Abstract—People waste many hours driving each day. Although unavoidable, this time can be very boring to motorists. Similar to people taking mass transit who often pass the time ...
Lu Han, Stephen Smaldone, Pravin Shankar, James Bo...
Tightly-coupled interaction is shared work in which each person's actions immediately and continuously influence the actions of others. Tightly-coupled collaboration is a hal...
Social network contents are not limited to text but also multimedia. Dailymotion, YouTube, and MySpace are examples of successful sites which allow users to share videos among the...
Janice Kwan-Wai Leung, Chun Hung Li, Ting Keung Ip