Single node failures represent more than 85% of all node failures in the today's large communication networks such as the Internet [10]. Also, these node failures are usually...
Identifying consumer preferences is a key challenge in customizing electronic commerce sites to individual users. The increasing availability of online social networks provides on...
Traditionally, clustering problems are investigated under the assumption that all objects must be clustered. A shortcoming of this formulation is that a few distant objects, calle...
Abstract Selectivity estimation of a boolean query based on frequent itemsets can be solved by describing the problem by a linear program. However, the number of variables in the e...
—In this paper, we conduct extensive simulations to understand the properties of the overlay generated by BitTorrent. We start by analyzing how the overlay properties impact the ...