Shrack is a peer-to-peer framework for document sharing and tracking. Shrack peers provide support to researchers in forming direct collaboration in autonomous sharing and keeping...
Hathai Tanta-ngai, Vlado Keselj, Evangelos E. Mili...
Recent years have seen a proliferation of work on the Semantic Web, an initiative to enable intelligent agents to reason about and utilize World Wide Web content and services. Con...
The software architecture of a distributed program can be represented by a hierarchical composition of subsystems, with interacting processes at the leaves of the hierarchy. Compo...
Shing-Chi Cheung, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Jeff Kra...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
We describe a novel scalable group membership algorithm designed for wide area networks WANs. Our membership service does not evolve from existing LAN-oriented membership servic...
Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Da...