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P2P networks are inherently unstable
The P2P technology underlying file-sharing systems are inherently unstable because of self-organizing processes akin to Gause's competitive exclusion principle, and preferential attachment. To maintain an egalitarian P2P organization it is necessary to conserve the original network's entropy, defined as the random structure of the network and actions among peers. ...
When Good Machine Learning Leads to Bad Security: Big Data (Ubiquity symposium)
While machine learning has proven to be promising in several application domains, our understanding of its behavior and limitations is still in its nascent stages. One such domain is that of cybersecurity. Presented within is a new interdisciplinary area of research, at the crossroads of machine learning, cybersecurity, and streaming data mining. ...
