Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are currently receiving much attention as a means of sharing and distributing information. However, as recent experience shows, the anonymous, o...
Sepandar D. Kamvar, Mario T. Schlosser, Hector Gar...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particula...
Abstract-- It is desirable to limit the amount of communication and computation generated by each agent in a large multi-agent system. Event- and self-triggered control strategies ...
Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Emilio Frazzoli, Karl Henrik...
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Abstract. A component-based system consists of components linked by connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, up...