: The SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) proposed by Lowe [1] is an approach for extracting distinctive invariant features from images. It has been successfully app...
Peer-to-peer sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular and an exciting new class of innovative, internet-based data management systems. In these systems, users contribute ...
Peter Triantafillou, Chryssani Xiruhaki, Manolis K...
Although, most of phenomena change over time, there has been an attempt to model the phenomena of real world assuming a static nature for them. Even when changes occurred in the p...
Responsiveness and scalability are important quality-of-service attributes for Web applications. Web sites that are slow, either because of poor responsiveness or lack of scalabil...
BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem: content unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular c...