The growing interest in ad hoc wireless network applications that are made of large and dense populations of lightweight system resources calls for scalable approaches to fault to...
Although normative systems, or social laws, have proved to be a highly influential approach to coordination in multi-agent systems, the issue of compliance to such normative syste...
Abstract. Replication is a fundamental technique for increasing throughput and achieving fault tolerance in distributed data services. However, its implementation may induce signif...
Laurent Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Elaine L....
Abstract. Consensus is a fundamental building block used to solve many practical problems that appear on reliable distributed systems. In spite of the fact that consensus is being ...
Abstract. It appeared recently that some statistical properties of complex networks like the Internet, the World Wide Web or Peer-to-Peer systems have an important influence on the...