There is little or no guidance to systematically design a self-organising emergent solution that achieves the desired macroscopic behaviour. This paper describes decentralised coor...
Current solutions to characterize grid computing usage are limited in three important aspects. First, they do not provide a global, uniform view of the use of infrastructures compr...
Glauco Antonio Ludwig, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, G...
In this paper, network hosted transcoding is studied for the optimization of resources in multicast applications. The configuration is as follows: one source node is sending a sig...
Thijs Lambrecht, Bart Duysburgh, Tim Wauters, Fili...
Specific applications like military or public emergency ones require secure group communication in ad hoc environments. The most suitable solution to provide the expected level of...
Mohamed Salah Bouassida, Isabelle Chrisment, Olivi...
The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently runni...