This paper studies the use of pricing as an incentive mechanism to encourage private, self-interested nodes to participate in a public wireless mesh network and cooperate in the p...
Abstract. Computer simulations of realistic applications usually require solving a set of non-linear partial di erential equations PDEs over a nite region. The process of obtaini...
Leonid Oliker, Xiaoye S. Li, Gerd Heber, Rupak Bis...
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo
Abstract. We present a new method for proving liveness and termination properties for fair concurrent programs, which does not rely on finding a ranking function or on computing th...
Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Bengt Jonsson, Ahmed Rezine, ...
This paper proposes a cache hierarchy that enables Web search engines to efficiently process user queries. The different caches in the hierarchy are used to store pieces of data w...