The paper proposes an adaptive web system--that is, a website that is capable of changing its original design to fit user requirements. For the purpose of improving shortcomings o...
Current PKI-based email systems (such as X.509 S/MIME and PGP/ MIME) potentially enable a recipient to determine a name and organizational affiliation of the sender. This informati...
Many critical decisions for individuals and organizations are often framed as preferential choices: the process of selecting the best option out of a set of alternatives. This pap...
Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often un...
Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert M...
How to coordinate the processes in a complex component-based software system is a nontrivial issue. Many different coordination approaches exist, each with its own specific advanta...