Selectiveattentionis a mechanismsused to sequentiallyselectthe spatiallocationsof salientregionsin the sensor’sfieldof view. This mechanism overcomesthe problem of flooding limi...
This paper discusses the implementation and performance of bounded voting: a new object replication protocol designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. We show ...
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Caching is a standard solution to the problem of insufcient bandwidth caused by the rapid increase of information circulation across the Internet. Cache consistency mechanisms are...
A considerable amount of effort in the DIS community has been devoted to developing efficient, scaleable, mechanisms for distributing state updates and interaction information in ...