In this thesis, we present a framework to characterize and leverage people movement for improvements of content distribution in mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Particularly, we study twotypical classes of people movement including the Schelling behavior and repetitive behavior. The Schelling...

Notwithstanding of the considerable body international law dealing with occupation, identification of the normative standards against which law and order is maintained continues to challenge the international community. That challenge is centered on the existence of an unclear and often awkward...

Computer science and informatics have great potential to improve citizen engagement with public officials, voting, access to public information and other democratic processes. Yet progress towards achieving these aims on a wide scale remains slow. A main reason for this lack of progress is that...