Abstract. We describe and model a new aspect in the design of distributed information systems. We build upon a previously described problem on the microlevel, which asks how quickl...
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
In electronic marketplaces populated by self-interested agents, buyer agents would benefit by modeling the reputation of seller agents, in order to make effective decisions abou...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are based upon the cooperative interactions of member peers. Typically, peers are both autonomous and self-interested, meaning that there is no hierarch...
We describe a system whose purpose is to explore the use of certificates for the distributed management of access rights for resources that have multiple, independent, and geograp...
William E. Johnston, Srilekha Mudumbai, Mary R. Th...