In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
This paper surveys a variety of subsystems designed to be the building blocks from which sophisticated infrastructures for ubiquitous computing are assembled. Our experience shows...
Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, Gregory D. Abowd,...
The current IETF standardization work has highlighted the feasibility of providing the users with a QoS network architecture in the framework of Integrated Services over Different...
Stefano Giordano, M. Mancino, A. Martucci, Saverio...
Sensor networks promise viable solutions to many monitoring problems. However, the practical deployment of sensor networks faces many challenges imposed by real-world demands. Sen...
Bartosz Przydatek, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Adrian Perr...
Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Reques...