Q&A sites currently enable large numbers of contributors to collectively build valuable
knowledge bases. Naturally, these sites are the product of contributors acting in different …

BitTorrent communities, both public and private, are immensely popular in the Internet, with
tens of millions of users simultaneously active at any given moment. Public and private …

This paper provides a case study of online pirate communities who use peer-to-peer
networks to share copyrighted material illegally. Early scholars of peer-to-peer networks …

The ISO 26262 functional safety standard provides appropriate development processes,
requirements and safety integrity levels specific for the automotive domain. One crucial …

Over the years, private file-sharing communities built on the BitTorrent protocol have
developed their own policies and mechanisms for motivating members to share content and …

BitTorrent plays a very important role in the current Internet content distribution. The
enormous impact of public and private trackers should not be overlooked. Public trackers …

Distributed classification in large-scale P2P networks has gained relevance in recent years
and support applications like distributed intrusion detection in P2P monitoring environments …

Many private BitTorrent communities employ Sharing Ratio Enforcement (SRE) schemes to
incentivize users to contribute their upload resources. It has been demonstrated that …

BitTorrent is a highly popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. Much BitTorrent activity
takes place within private virtual communities called" private trackers"-a server that allows …

Private P2P communities, as known as" BitTorrent Darknets" or" Private Trackers (PTs)",
have received much attention in the research community recently. The downloading …