The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. In applications that use a large number of groups, ...
BitTorrent and Practical Network Coding are efficient methods for sharing files in a peer-to-peer network. Both face the problem to distribute a given file using peers with dif...
Christian Ortolf, Christian Schindelhauer, Arne Va...
This paper presents a novel approach to inter-organizational workflow cooperation. Our goal is to provide support for organizations which are involved in a shared but not pre-mode...
If a network is to operate successfully, its users need to collaborate. Collaboration takes the form of following a network protocol and involves some resource expenditure on the p...
— Static resources allocation problems have been widely studied. More recently some of this attention has changed to focus on dynamic problems, where problem specifications, con...