Structured overlay networks form a major class of peer-to-peer systems, which are touted for their abilities to scale, tolerate failures, and self-manage. Any long lived Internet-scale distributed system is destined to face network partitions. Although the problem of network partitions and mergers is highly related to fault-tolerance and self-management in large-scale systems, it has hardly bee...

Objectives. Patient experiences of structured heart failure rehabilitation and their views on the important components of heart failure services were examined. Methods. Focus groups were conducted with fifteen participants (men, n = 12) attending one of two heart failure rehabilitation programmes. Sessions were guided by a semistructured interview schedule covering participants' experiences of ...

While most structured peer-to-peer services are conceptually very simple, their implementation is not. Even though similar observations can be made about any type of software, it can be shown that large parts of implementation complexity derives from the way management tasks such as error condition handling are dealt with. The traditional way to manage distributed systems software is to list al...

In implementing monetary policy, the Bank uses changes in the overnight interest rate on money market funds – the so-called cash rate – to influence the interest rate structure in the economy more generally, particularly the interest rates charged by intermediaries on loans. These interest rates normally move broadly in line with the cash rate, but in recent years they have fallen by significan...

Peer-to-peer lending is a new highly liquid market for debt, which is rapidly growing in popularity. Here we consider modelling market rates, developing a nonlinear Gaussian Process regression method which incorporates both structured data and unstructured text from the loan application. We show that the peer-to-peer market is predictable, and identify a small set of key factors with high predi...