Many project managers of a large scale project shortened delivery period of his or her projects unwillingly by the request of clients. However, some of them believe there is no dif...
QSM is a multicast engine designed to support a style of distributed programming in which application objects are replicated among clients and updated via multicast. The model req...
In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
We describe results from a survey of employees at Microsoft about how they manage personal and household scheduling. We saw a much greater use of digital calendars than we expecte...
This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligatio...