Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
Display characteristics, network Quality of Service, and the user's current task all exhibit a wide range of variation when users interact with mobile and ubiquitous devices....
Transparent replication has been viewed as the holy grail of fault-tolerant computing. We discuss issues arising when using atomic broadcast to replicate services that are accesse...
Abstract--Large-scale attacks like Distributed Denial-ofService (DDoS) attacks still pose unpredictable threats to the Internet infrastructure and Internet-based business. Thus, ma...
—People, companies, and public authorities can now have a strong on-line presence and a huge amount of interactions on the Internet, made possible by the impressive growth of the...