Traders in electronic marketplaces may behave dishonestly, cheating other agents. A multitude of trust and reputation systems have been proposed to try to cope with the problem of...
Energy reduction is critical to increase the mobility and to extend the mission period in the development of today’s pervasive computing systems. On the other hand, however, ene...
Continued research into distributed agent-based systems and evolving web based technologies are opening up tremendous possibilities for the deployment of large scale and highly ex...
We investigate issues related to the probe complexity of quorum systems and their implementation in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is twofold. The first regards the algo...
Application specific systems have potential for customization of design with a view to achieve a better costperformance-power trade-off. Such customization requires extensive de...