Although active networks have generated much debate in the research community, on the whole there has been little hard evidence to inform this debate. This paper aims to redress t...
This paper studies the influence of what are recognized as key issues in evolutionary multi-objective optimization: archiving (to keep track of the current non-dominated solutions...
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
We present the first universally verifiable voting scheme that can be based on a general assumption (existence of a non-interactive commitment scheme). Our scheme is also the first...
Abstract--Most work on adaptive workflows offers insufficient flexibility to enforce complex policies regarding dynamic, evolvable and robust workflows. In addition, many proposed ...