Given two sets of points P and Q, a group nearest neighbor (GNN) query retrieves the point(s) of P with the smallest sum of distances to all points in Q. Consider, for instance, t...
View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for constructing highlyavailable fault-tolerant systems. Unfortunately, groupcommunication based s...
Eitan Farchi, Gabriel Kliot, Yoel Krasny, Alex Kri...
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
The problem of total participation in asynchronous meetings convened with distributed group support systems has been noted frequently but investigated rarely. This paper describes...
Distributed applications should be able to make use of an object group service in a number of application specific ways. Three main modes of interactions can be identified: (i) re...