Smart dust motes are miniature self-contained systems that may be deployed in very large numbers. In military applications these devices are subject to different threats than conv...
This paper describes a Secure INtrusion-Tolerant Replication Architecture1 (SINTRA) for coordination in asynchronous networks subject to Byzantine faults. SINTRA supplies a number...
International standardization in information representation, organization, and dissemination are meant to eliminate the discrepancies in communication among participating organiza...
Vivid agents [48] are software-controlled systems whose state comprises the mental components of knowledge, perceptions, tasks, and intentions, and whose behaviour is represented ...
Reducing management costs and improving the availability of large-scale distributed systems require automatic replica regeneration, i.e., creating new replicas in response to repl...