Abstract. Nowadays, digital libraries are inherently dispersed over several peers of a steadily increasing network. Dedicated peers may provide specialized, computationally expensi...
There are many underlying hardware architectures for execution of parallel applications. One of these is the Network of Workstations (NOW) which is an interesting solution for use...
P2P applications are rapidly gaining acceptance among users of Internet-based services, especially because of their capability of exchanging resources while preserving the anonymi...
Roberto Aringhieri, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Ca...
In a free of charge or flat-rate Internet access environment, there often exists abusive and unfair usage of network resources. In this paper, the Internet access by the dormitory...
Tsung-Ching Lin, Yeali S. Sun, Shi-Chung Chang, Sh...
To facilitate the sharing of information using modern communication networks, users must be able to decide on a privacy policy--what information to conceal, what to reveal, and to...