The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
—Many emerging information processing applications require applying various fork and join type operations such as correlation, aggregation, and encoding/decoding to data streams ...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
The development of the World Wide Web has changed the way we think about information. Information on the web is distributed, updates are made asynchronously and resources come onli...
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
We consider a swarm of robots equipped with an infrared range and bearing device that is able both to make estimates of the relative distance and angle between two robots in line-o...
Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca Maria...