The number and complexity of distributed applications has exploded, and to-date, each has had to create its own method for providing diagnostic tools and performance metrics. Thes...
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algor...
Jacob Jan-David Mol, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J....
In this paper we present a JXTA-based platform, called Juxta-CAT, which is an effort to use the JXTA architecture to build a job execution-sharing distributed environment. The Ju...
Agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) need means for locating other agents with which they may collaborate. To address this need, several agent location mechanisms were suggest...