Peer-to-peer overlays allow distributed applications to work in a wide-area, scalable, and fault-tolerant manner. However, most structured and unstructured overlays present in lit...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
A blossoming paradigm for block-recursive matrix algorithms is presented that, at once, attains excellent performance measured by • time, • TLB misses, • L1 misses, • L2 m...
Standardized middleware is used to build large distributed real-time and enterprise (DRE) systems. These middleware are highly flexible and support a large number of features sin...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks continue to be popular means of trading content. However, very little protection is in place to make sure that the files exchanged in these networks a...