We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
— Many multicast overlay networks maintain application-specific performance goals such as bandwidth, latency, jitter and loss rate by dynamically changing the overlay structure ...
Aaron Walters, David John Zage, Cristina Nita-Rota...
— With the continued growth of computing power and reduction in physical size of enterprise servers, the need for actively managing electrical power usage in large datacenters is...
Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, James E. Hanson,...
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
Instant messaging platforms facilitate coordination in workgroups by providing users with mutual information on their presence and availability, allowing for ad-hoc conversations ...