Latency-driven distribution: infrastructure needs of participatory entertainment applications

Applications of Analytic Network Process in Entertainment

An Infrastructure for Participatory Media

Purchasing decisions can be hard to make. For example, the decision to purchase a house by a person can be based on many parameters such as the price of the house, distance from her workplace, quietness of the neighborhood, etc. It is hard to capture all such parameters in a recommender system or a knowledge-sharing website. Further, many such parameters are highly subjective and difficult to e...

Infrastructure Needs by County

With regional projects factored out (see note at right), eight of the ten counties reporting the largest infrastructure needs in dollar terms were also among the top for total population and for population gains from 1990 to 2001. Those two population factors play a somewhat smaller role in relation to the bottom ten counties. Six of the bottom ten for total report needs were among the bottom t...

PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing Infrastructure∗

Participatory Sensing combines the ubiquity of mobile phones with the sensing capabilities of Wireless Sensor Networks. It targets the pervasive collection of information, e.g., temperature, traffic conditions, or medical data. Users produce measurements from their mobile devices, thus, a number of privacy concerns – due to the personal information conveyed by reports – may hinder the large-sca...

Latency-driven BitTorrent

In recent years BitTorrent has become a notorious contributor to Internet traffic. Not only is BitTorrent responsible for over one third of all Internet traffic, but an immoderate amount of it is expensive cross-ISP or even inter-continental traffic. Much of BitTorrent’s long-distance traffic is due to its random selection of peers, which can cause connected peers to be at very different locati...