We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of p...
The main problem in any model-building situation is to choose from a large set of covariates those that should be included in the "best" model. A decision to keep a vari...
Zoran Bursac, C. Heath Gauss, David Keith Williams...
This paper introduces a cooperation-based database caching system for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The heart of the system is the nodes that cache submitted queries. The querie...
BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular peer-to-peer file sharing system, which uses an embedded set of incentive mechanisms to encourage contribution and prevent free-riding. How...
The internet and related technologies have made multidomain collaborations a reality. Collaboration enables domains to effectively share resources; however, it introduces several s...