New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provis...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
Abstract. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause cohere...
Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Ros...
Abstract. Composite web services can be orchestrated in a decentralized manner by breaking down the original service specification into a set of partitions and executing them on a...
Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...
Distributed publish/subscribe systems are naturally suited for processing events in distributed systems. However, support for expressing patterns about disparate events and algorit...