Since entities participating in P2P networks are usually autonomous and therefore free to decide on their level of participation, mechanisms to resolve conflicts between individu...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
Conventional information fusion architectures are challenged by developments in sensor networks that allow individually-owned (and thereby selfish) sensors to interact and share d...
Alex Rogers, Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings...
Abundant content, data type and diverse members' interests naturally lead to preference heterogeneity within a multicast session requiring frequent communication within subgr...
It is critical to guarantee the reliability of serviceoriented applications. This is because they may employ remote Web Services as components, which may easily become unavailable...