Agents that must reach agreements with other agents need to reason about how their preferences, judgments, and beliefs might be aggregated with those of others by the social choic...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a general framework that can model complex problems in multi-agent systems. Several current algorithms that solve general DCOP instan...
Abstract. Jgroup/ARM is a middleware for developing and operating dependable distributed Java applications. Jgroup integrates the distributed object model of Java RMI with the obje...
: This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-ten...
Traditional Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) have not lived up to their promise because there are too many ways to define PKIs, too many cryptographic primitives to build them wi...
Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, ...