This paper describes a study in the evolution of distributed cooperative behavior, specifically leader election, through digital evolution and group selection. In digital evoluti...
David B. Knoester, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofr...
There are various situations where a distinction needs to be made between group members and outsiders. For example, to protect students in chat groups from unpleasant incidents ca...
Many different divisible designs are already known. Some of them possess remarkable automorphism groups, so called dual translation groups. The existence of such an automorphism g...
In this paper we investigate the survivability of multilevel ad-hoc groups for critical operations through a case study. We aim to provide a formal trust framework for establishin...
Security in collaborative peer groups is an active research topic. Most previous work focused on key management without addressing an important pre-requisite: admission control, i...