This paper considers the small-world phenomenon in two contexts: ubiquitous computing and security. We argue that small-world properties emerge in ubicomp systems due to their nat...
To increase the scale and performance of scientific applications, scientists commonly distribute computation over multiple processors. Often without realizing it, file I/O is pa...
Seetharami R. Seelam, Andre Kerstens, Patricia J. ...
—The effectiveness of application-layer coding in a system with a large number of users is considered. The end users encode data packets before transmitting them. The effect of a...
Content-based publish/subscribe systems allow matching the content of events with predicates in the subscriptions. However, most existing systems only allow a limited set of opera...
When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...