A power grid is a complex system connecting electric power generators to consumers through power transmission and distribution networks across a large geographical area. System mo...
—Failure detectors are a fundamental part of safe fault-tolerant distributed systems. Many failure detectors use heartbeats to draw conclusions about the state of nodes within a ...
Benjamin Satzger, Andreas Pietzowski, Wolfgang Tru...
Abstract. Networked embedded systems are composed of a large number of components that interact with the physical world via a set of sensors and actuators, have their own computati...
This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...
Interest on using mobile autonomous agents has been growing, recently, due to their capacity to cooperate for diverse purposes, from rescue to demining and security. However, such ...