We present a deterministic model for on-line social networks based on transitivity and local knowledge in social interactions. In the Iterated Local Transitivity (ILT) model, at ea...
Anthony Bonato, Noor Hadi, Paul Horn, Pawel Pralat...
Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
Understanding mobility characteristics is important for the design and analysis of routing schemes for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). This is especially true for mobile opportun...
Security and reliability are of paramount importance in designing and building real-time systems because any security failure can put the public and the environment at risk. In th...
Large-scale distributed systems are subject to churn, i.e., continuous arrival, departure and failure of processes. Analysis of protocols under churn requires one to use churn mod...