Replication and caching have been deployed widely in current P2P systems. In update-allowed P2P systems, a consistency maintenance mechanism is strongly demanded. Several solution...
— The efforts to construct a national scale Grid computing environment have brought unprecedented computing capacity and complicacy. Exploiting this complex infrastructure requir...
We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
This paper is concerned with key escrow protocols for use in international communications environments, where communication domains do not necessarily trust one another. It is conc...
In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...