One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
Within nature, the success of many organisms, including certain species of insects, mammals, slime molds, and bacteria, is attributed to their performance of division of labor, wh...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
We present views, a new approach to controlling concurrency. Fine-grained locking is often necessary to increase concurrency. Correctly implementing fine-grained locking with tod...
Mobile underwater sensor networks are usually featured with three-dimensional topology, high node mobility and long propagation delays. For such networks, geographic routing has be...