This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Ricochet is a low-latency reliable multicast protocol designed for time-critical clustered applications. It uses IP Multicast to transmit data and recovers from packet loss in end...
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Kenneth P. Birman, Amar Phani...
Two broad classes of memory models are available today: models with hardware cache coherence, used in conventional chip multiprocessors, and models that rely upon software to mana...
John H. Kelm, Daniel R. Johnson, William Tuohy, St...
We first show by measurements that BGP peering links fail as frequently as intradomain links and usually for short periods of time. We propose a new fast-reroute technique where ...
Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Fra...
The 2002 SIGCOMM Workshop on Educational Challenges for Computer Networking [Kur02a] exposed many issues related to teaching computer networking with the need for a laboratory in ...
Michael Erlinger, Mart Molle, Titus Winters, Chris...