Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Recent work has examined infrastructure-mediated sensing as a practical, low-cost, and unobtrusive approach to sensing human activity in the physical world. This approach is based...
Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Tim Campbell, Conor Ha...
ZebraNet is a mobile, wireless sensor network in which nodes move throughout an environment working to gather and process information about their surroundings [10]. As in many sen...
Ting Liu, Christopher M. Sadler, Pei Zhang, Margar...
We investigate the properties of a multiagent system where each (distributed) agent locally perceives its environment. Upon perception of an unexpected event, each agent locally c...
Gauvain Bourgne, Gael Hette, Nicolas Maudet, Suzan...
Mobile agents are autonomous programs that migrate from one machine to another within a network on behalf of a client, thus, they are ideal for mobile computing environments since ...