Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm to realise a large range of distributed services. However, as the number of overlays grows and the systems that use them become...
Quantization is intrinsic to several data acquisition systems. This process is especially important in distributed settings, where observations must rst be compressed before they ...
We describe an approach to the development of a digital library system that is founded on a number of basic principles. In particular, we discuss the critical role of metadata in ...
Alexa T. McCray, Marie E. Gallagher, Michael A. Fl...
Equivocation has been widely used as a measure of security after Shannon[10]. For an infinite system such as the wiretap channel defined in [2], equivocation is unbounded and so e...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...