— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
Our research addresses two important problems that arise in modern large-scale distributed systems: (1) the necessity to virtualize their data flows by applying actions such as ...
Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan,...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have received great attention for sharing and searching information in large user communities. The open and anonymous nature of P2P networks is one of ...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Debora Donato, Carlos Cas...
Making commitments, e.g., through promises and threats, enables a player to exploit the strengths of his own strategic position as well as the weaknesses of that of his opponents....
Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...