The ability to guarantee that a system will continue to operate correctly under degraded conditions is key to the success of adopting multi-agent systems (MAS) as a paradigm for d...
The complexity of the cluster-based web service challenges the traditional approaches, which fail to guarantee the reliability and real-time performance required. In this paper, w...
Abstract. Current measures to enhance the security of untrusted mobile applications require a user to trust the software vendor. They do not guarantee complete protection against t...
—This paper deals with decentralized, QoS-aware middleware for checkpointing arrangement in Mobile Grid (MoG) computing systems. Checkpointing is more crucial in MoG systems than...
We propose a type system for lock-freedom in the -calculus, which guarantees that certain communications will eventually succeed. Distinguishing features of our type system are: it...