good data partitioning scheme is the need of the time. However it is very diflcult to arrive at a good solution as the number of possible dutupartitionsfor a given real lifeprogra...
Abstract— Motivated by applications to sensor, peer-topeer and ad hoc networks, we study distributed asynchronous algorithms, also known as gossip algorithms, for computation and...
Stephen P. Boyd, Arpita Ghosh, Balaji Prabhakar, D...
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a popular application-level signaling protocol that is used for a wide variety of applications such as session control and mobility handli...
Cristian Hesselman, Henk Eertink, Ing Widya, Erik ...
Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users t...
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind T...