This paper proposes a new variant of the task allocation problem, where the agents are connected in a social network and tasks arrive at the agents distributed over the network. W...
Distributed Role-Based Access Control (dRBAC) is a scalable, decentralized trust-management and accesscontrol mechanism for systems that span multiple administrative domains. dRBA...
Eric Freudenthal, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Edwa...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
Target tracking is an important issue in wireless sensor network applications. In this paper, we design a Coverage-Hole Trap Model (CTM) based on a system that contains one moving...
: In modern organisations the monolithic information systems of the past are being gradually replaced by networked systems, enabling distributed computing often based on multi-agen...