Abstract. In this paper we describe a methodology for harvesting information from large distributed repositories (e.g. large Web sites) with minimum user intervention. The methodol...
Fabio Ciravegna, Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Yori...
Every computer needs a timer mechanism to keep track of current time and also for various accounting purposes such as calculating the time spent by a process in CPU utilization, di...
Abstract. Dining cryptographers networks (or DC-nets) are a privacypreserving primitive devised by Chaum for anonymous message publication. A very attractive feature of the basic D...
High scalability in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems has been achieved with the emergence of the networks based on Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Most of the DHTs can be regarded as expon...
Scheduling parallel jobs has been an active investigation area. The scheduler has to deal with heterogeneous workloads and try to obtain throughputs and response times such that en...