In order to prevent misunderstandings within groups of interacting agents, it is necessary to ensure that the agents' beliefs regarding the overall state of the interaction a...
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Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or removing compo...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks attract much attention from legal and research communities. The success and popularity of P2P networks provides a new paradigm for sharing...
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Design and implementation of distributed algorithms often involve many subtleties due to their complex structure, non-determinism, and low atomicity as well as occurrence of unanti...
Ananda Basu, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Marius Bozga, Jo...