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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A sensor middleware and agent-based communication platform for supply-chain management
We present a supply-chain management system that supports transportation of cargo containers and monitors the quality of control during transport. Our system primarily focuses on ...
Klaas Thoelen, Sam Michiels, Wouter Joosen, Koen V...
WETICE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Gossip-Based Distributed Social Networking System
—Social networking web sites, which allow users to create identities and link them to friends who have also created identities, are highly popular. Systems such as Facebook and M...
S. M. A. Abbas, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. Epem...
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Collective decision-making in multi-agent systems by implicit leadership
Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...
Chih-Han Yu, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal
FAST
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates
We show how untrusted computers can be used to facilitate secure mobile data access. We discuss a novel architecture, data staging, that improves the performance of distributed ï¬...
Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, M...
EUROSSC
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Towards Hovering Information
This paper introduces a new concept of information that can exist in a mobile environment with no fixed infrastructure and centralized servers, which we call the Hovering Informati...
Alfredo A. Villalba Castro, Dimitri Konstantas