The composition of services that are indexed in a large-scale service directory often involves many complex queries issued by the service composition algorithm to the directory. Th...
Abstract. The frameworks for protecting security and privacy can be effective only if common users--with no training in computer science or logic--increase their awareness and cont...
Themost costly aspect of gathering information over the Internet is that of transferring data over the networkto answer the user’s query. Wemaketwo contributions in this paperth...
— We analyze the asymptotic cost of discovering a route within a flat ad hoc network and we show that one can discover a route with cost that is proportional only to the area of...
— Peer selection for query routing is a core task in peer-to-peer networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems (like Gnutella) ignore this problem, leading to an abundance of netw...