In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
This paper addresses two important challenges for current P2P systems, namely churn and selfishness. First, we report on a system [19] whose desirable properties (small peer degre...
Stefan Schmid, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Rog...
The suitability of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches for fulltext web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retri...
Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Toan Luu, Fabius Klem...
Skyline query has been gaining much interest in database research communities in recent years. Most existing studies focus mainly on centralized systems, and resolving the problem...
Shiyuan Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, L...
The fusion of Multimedia and Internet technology has introduced an ever-increasing demand for large-scale reliable media services. This exposes the scalability limitations of curr...
Vana Kalogeraki, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Dimi...