Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, is a paradigm that is viewed as a
potential technology for redesigning distributed architectures and, consequently, distributed …

Peer-to-peer technology is widely used for file sharing. In the past decade a number of
prototype peer-to-peer information retrieval systems have been developed. Unfortunately …

Search task characteristics are recognized as important factors that affect search process
and its outcomes. We examine the relationships among operational measures of searcher's …

The suitability of peer-to-peer (P2P) approaches for full-text Web retrieval has recently been
questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by …

We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities
like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del. icio. us or flickr. A common …

Developments in telecommunications technology has opened up the possibility of
circumventing intellectual property in the digital world, outside the legal and technical …

The World Wide Web is growing at such a pace that even the biggest centralized search
engines are able to index only a small part of the available documents on the Internet. The …

The traditional intrusion detection system has the disadvantages of alert flooding and high
false positive due to weak collaboration-awareness. The collaborative intrusion detection …

This paper deals with the normal density of n dependent random variables. This is a function
of the form: ce (-x/sup T/Ax) where A is an n/spl times/n positive definite matrix, a: is the n …

P2P data management systems provide a scalable alternative to centralized architectures.
Their adoption, however, is limited by the lack of possibility to control the access to the …