In an increasingly popular model of software distribution, software is developed in one computing environment and deployed in other environments by transfer over the internet. Ext...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Abstract--If we are to deploy sensor applications in a realistic business context, we must provide innovative middleware services to control and enforce required system behavior; i...
ÐIn this paper, we investigate the k-set consensus problem in asynchronous distributed systems. In this problem, each participating process begins the protocol with an input value...
Roberto De Prisco, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reite...
Distributed applications execute in environments that can include different network architectures as well as a range of compute platforms. Furthermore, these resources are shared ...