There is now widespread acceptance of Web services and service-oriented architectures. But despite the agreement on key Web services standards there remain many challenges. Progra...
This paper presents a scalable leader election protocol for large process groups with a weak membership requirement. The underlying network is assumed to be unreliable but characte...
Indranil Gupta, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Bi...
We consider distributed algorithms to optimize random access multihop wireless networks in the presence of fading. Since the associated optimization problem is neither convex nor ...
If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...
Linearizability is the strongest known consistency property of shared objects. In asynchronous message passing systems, Linearizability can be achieved with 3S and a majority of c...
Marco Serafini, Dan Dobre, Matthias Majuntke, P&ea...