This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...
A new class of applications can now be envisaged with the emergence of both mobile ad hoc computing and ubiquitous computing. Applications of such kind are characterised by being ...
Hector A. Duran-Limon, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Fri...
We describe a new vector-based primitive for creating smoothshaded images, called the diffusion curve. A diffusion curve partitions the space through which it is drawn, defining d...
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
Routing infrastructure plays a vital role in the Internet, and attacks on routers can be damaging. Compromised routers can drop, modify, mis-forward or reorder valid packets. Exis...