Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
We consider the task of aggregating beliefs of several experts. We assume that these beliefs are represented as probability distributions. We argue that the evaluation of any aggr...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
— Key predistribution is a popular technique for key distribution in sensor networks. The schemes available in current literature using this approach are for nodes with no or lim...
Runtime monitoring is key to the effective management of enterprise and high performance applications. To deal with the complex behaviors of today’s multi-tier applications runn...