Sensornets provide coverage of physical phenomena over extended periods, perhaps months or years. However, active nodes may deplete finite batteries within days, and are prone to...
Abstract—Complex networks consisting of humans and software services, such as Web-based social and collaborative environments, typically require flexible and context-based inter...
Abstract— Maintaining semantic consistency of data is a significant problem in distributed information systems, particularly those on which a business may depend. Our current wo...
Jeremy W. Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Ro...
Abstract—We are developing a concurrent, agent-based approach to complex systems simulation as part of the CoSMoS project. In such simulations an agent’s behaviour can typicall...
Abstract—Granuloma is a medical term for a ball-like collection of immune cells that attempts to remove foreign substances from a host organism. This response is a special type o...
—In the field of distributed computing, there are many round-based algorithms to solve fundamental problems, such as leader election and distributed consensus. Due to the nature...
Reuse is an important means of reducing costs and effort during the development of complex software systems. A major challenge is to find suitable components in a large library wit...
Matthias Schmidt, Jan Polowinski, Jendrik Johannes...