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ICDCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
ISP Friend or Foe? Making P2P Live Streaming ISP-Aware
Abstract: Current peer-to-peer systems are network-agnostic, often generating large volumes of unnecessary inter-ISP traffic. Although recent work has shown the benefits of ISP-a...
Fabio Picconi, Laurent Massoulié
HPDC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
FaTLease: scalable fault-tolerant lease negotiation with paxos
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
Felix Hupfeld, Björn Kolbeck, Jan Stender, Mi...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot
Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
Shuhei Miyashita, Max Kessler, Marco Lungarella
GROUP
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
CASCON
2007
110views Education» more  CASCON 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Runtime monitoring of web service conversations
For a system of distributed processes, correctness can be ensured by (statically) checking whether their composition satisfies properties of interest. In contrast, Web services a...
Yuan Gan, Marsha Chechik, Shiva Nejati, Jon Bennet...