Abstract. We propose a distributed and adaptive topology management algorithm, called PATM (Priority-based Adaptive Topology Management), that constructs and maintains a connected ...
: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Abstract. Conventional middleware architectures suffer from insufficient module-level reusability and the ability to adapt in face of functionality evolution and diversification....
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are receiving increasing attention in a variety of current applications. In this paper, we concentrate on applications where a mobile user queries peers...
Consider a database most of whose entries are marked but the precise fraction of marked entries is not known. What is known is that the fraction of marked entries is 1 − , where ...