Organisations have encouraged the use of group working over the past 10 years. However this has led to social and cultural upheaval in some organisations. In addition new technolo...
The natural world is enormous, dynamic, incredibly diverse, and highly complex. Despite the inherent challenges of surviving in such a world, biological organisms evolve, self-org...
A wireless ad hoc network is formed by a group of wireless hosts, without the use of any infrastructure. To enable communication, hosts cooperate among themselves to forward packet...
—We study a mobile wireless network where groups or clusters of nodes are intermittently connected via mobile “carriers” (the carriers provide connectivity over time among di...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...