We propose a formal model of trust informed by the Global Computing scenario and focusing on the aspects of trust formation, evolution, and propagation. The model is based on a no...
Abstract. This case study applies techniques of formal program development by specification refinement and composition to the problem of concurrent garbage collection. The speci...
: Link analysis is the most important application of web structure mining and serves as a new knowledge source in web information retrieval. However, the mono-dimensional analysis ...
The information we encounter in modern life, in developed countries, is a hybrid of the physical and the digital. Personal archiving tools allow users to capture and retrieve aspe...
Collective operations on distributed data sets foster a high-level data-parallel programming style that eases many aspects of parallel programming significantly. In this paper we...