The open nature of collaborative recommender systems allows attackers who inject biased profile data to have a significant impact on the recommendations produced. Standard memory-...
In this paper, a method for the performance assessment of a variable-gain control design for optical storage drives is proposed. The variablegain strategy is used to overcome well...
Nathan van de Wouw, H. A. Pastink, Marcel F. Heert...
: Conflict is a dynamic and complex form of human interaction, often emerging from incompatible actions, values and goals, and consuming a considerable amount of resources. Conflic...
— In this paper, we present a complete analytical study of dynamic membership (aka churn) in structured peer-to-peer networks. We use a master-equation-based approach, which is u...
Supriya Krishnamurthy, Sameh El-Ansary, Erik Aurel...
Following up on a recently renewed interest in computational methods for M/G/1-type processes, this paper considers an M/G/1-like system in which the service time distribution is ...