Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided an...
Ioannis Konstas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M....
— We consider the situation where users rank items from a given set, and each user ranks only a (small) subset of all items. We assume that users can be classified into C classe...
— Due to the increased usage of NAT boxes and firewalls, it has become harder for applications to establish direct connections seamlessly among two end-hosts. A recently adopted...
Hung Xuan Nguyen, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Matthias G...
In STOC’05, Ahn, Hopper and Langford introduced the notion of covert computation. A covert computation protocol is one in which parties can run a protocol without knowing if oth...
— Optimal bandwidth utilisation together with resilience and recovery from failure are two key drivers for Traffic Engineering (TE) which have been widely addressed by the IP co...