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EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Increasing performance in byzantine fault-tolerant systems with on-demand replica consistency
Traditional agreement-based Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems process all requests on all replicas to ensure consistency. In addition to the overhead for BFT protocol and sta...
Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Switchboard: a matchmaking system for multiplayer mobile games
— Supporting interactive, multiplayer games on mobile phones over cellular networks is a difficult problem. It is particularly relevant now with the explosion of mostly single-p...
Justin Manweiler, Sharad Agarwal, Ming Zhang, Romi...
AAAI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Payments in Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms for Multi-Parameter Domains
In AI research, mechanism design is typically used to allocate tasks and resources to agents holding private information about their values for possible allocations. In this conte...
Lachlan Thomas Dufton, Victor Naroditskiy, Maria P...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Developing a security protocol for a distributed decision support system in a healthcare environment
In this paper, we describe the unique security issues involved in healthcare domains. These have been addressed to the needs of the HealthAgents project. In the proposed approach,...
Liang Xiao 0002, Paul H. Lewis, Alex Gibb
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Selective early request termination for busy internet services
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Jingyu Zhou, Tao Yang