Distributed decision making in networked systems depends critically on the timely availability of critical fresh information. Performance of networked systems, from the perspective...
Large-scale online communities need to manage the tension between critical mass and information overload. Slashdot is a news and discussion site that has used comment rating to al...
Distributed storage systems provide data availability by means of redundancy. To assure a given level of availability in case of node failures, new redundant fragments need to be ...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack, Taoufik En-Na...
A number of factors, such as the increasing popularity of wireless networks, the opportunities offered by 3G services, and the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, have stimulat...
This paper assumes a set of n mobile sensors that move in the Euclidean plane as a swarm1 . Our objectives are to explore a given geographic region by detecting and aggregating sp...