Chord is a distributed hash table (DHT) that requires only O(logn) links per node and performs searches with latency and message cost O(logn), where n is the number of peers in the...
Business models on the basis of digital content require sophisticated descriptions of that content, as well as service-oriented carrier architectures that allow to negotiate and en...
Wernher Behrendt, Aldo Gangemi, Wolfgang Maass 000...
We define and instantiate a cryptographic scheme called “private counters”, which can be used in applications such as preferential voting to express and update preferences (or...
We understand selection by intersection as distinguishing a single element of a set by the uniqueness of its occurrence in some other set. More precisely, given two sets A and B, i...
Task Scheduling is a critical design issue of distributed computing. The emerging Grid computing infrastructure consists of heterogeneous resources in widely distributed autonomous...