Imagine a set of self-interested clients, each of whom must choose a server from a permissible set. A server’s latency is inversely proportional to its speed, but it grows linear...
This paper presents a design framework for wearable electronic textiles. The focus is on the design and simulation issues that arise from the interaction of the electronic textile...
Thomas Martin, Mark T. Jones, Joshua Edmison, Ravi...
The development of more and more complex distributed applications over large networks of computers has raised the problem of semantic interoperability across applications based on ...
Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini,...
This paper describes the multi-agent organization of a computer system that was designed to assist operators in decision making in the presence of emergencies. The application was ...
This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...