The individual agents that interact in a multi-agent system typically exist along a continuum ranging from heavyweight cognitive agents (often of the "BDI" type) to light...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Paul Nielsen, Sven Brueckner,...
There are currently two approaches to providing Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication: a replica-based approach, e.g., BFT, that uses communication between replicas t...
James A. Cowling, Daniel S. Myers, Barbara Liskov,...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
—A hybrid protocol for application level multicast (HPAM) for live video streaming without native IP multicast support is proposed. HPAM exploits the simplicity and optimality of...
:Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) consist of three types of nodes with different capabilities and functions. Because of these heterogeneities, current network security ...
Xiaomei Cao, Mao Lin Huang, YueQuan Chen, Guihai C...