The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
Abstract. Distributed computing must adapt its techniques to networks of mobile agents. Indeed, we are facing new problems like the small size of memory and the lack of computation...
Collaboration based on computers involves two factors, human users and computer systems. When we hope to build a feasible and efficient collaborative system, we must consider both...
With the consolidation of the Internet and other computer networks, the need of sophisticated systems to retrieve information increased enormously. In these networks, information ...
Rafael T. de Sousa Jr., Alexandre C. V. de Oliveir...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...