This paper describes how computer-human interaction in ambient computing environments can be best informed by conceptualizing of such environments as problem solving systems. Typi...
Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
A large variety of communication systems, including telephone and data networks, can be represented by so-called Whittle networks. The stationary distribution of these networks is...
Thomas Bonald, Matthieu Jonckheere, Alexandre Prou...
Abstract. One of the most important aspects affecting the overall performance of hybrid ad hoc networks is the efficient selection of Internet gateways. We have analytically model...
For Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks to realize their full potential their nodes need to coordinate and cooperate, to improve the performance of the network as a whole. But this requires...