This paper introduces a content-based information retrieval method inspired by the ideas of spreading activation models. In response to a given query, the proposed approach comput...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) multicast is a scalable solution adopted by many video streaming systems. However, a prevalence of P2P applications has caused heavy traffic on the Internet. W...
UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user--not just the system administrator--to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up f...
Reducing the energy consumed in the use of computing devices is becoming a major design challenge. While the problem obviously must be addressed with improved low-level technology...
Total Order Broadcast protocols are important tools to ensure coherence across distributed systems. Contrarily to classical distributed systems, pervasive systems bring important ...