Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
In most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, it is necessary to collect vital statistics data — sometimes referred to as logs — from up to millions of peers. Tradition...
Abstract. We introduce SONAR, a structured overlay to store and retrieve objects addressed by multi-dimensional names (keys). The overlay has the shape of a multi-dimensional torus...
Wireless sensor networks have recently been suggested for many surveillance applications such as object monitoring, path protection, or area coverage. Since the sensors themselves...
This paper proposes a model along with a reference software architecture enabling multi-coordination between distributed and mobile software agents. Multi-coordination allows agen...