Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...
An important stage of wide-area systems and networking research is to prototype a system to understand its performance when deployed in the real Internet. A key requirement of pro...
Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing Morley Ma...
In the recent years several research efforts have focused on the concept of time granularity and its applications. A first stream of research investigated the mathematical model...
Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...
Online photo services such as Flickr and Zooomr allow users to share their photos with family, friends, and the online community at large. An important facet of these services is ...
The problem of partner finding is to identify which entities (agents) can provide requested services from a group of entities. It can be found in open and distributed environment...