Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
Mobile ad-hoc networks with their arbitrary topologies are a difficult domain for providing highly available Web services. Since hosts can move unpredictably, finding services a...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
In this paper we investigate which characteristics reliable multicast services should have in order to be appropriate for use by distributed interactive media applications such as...
Quantum computation has become an intriguing technology with which to attack difficult problems and to enhance system security. Quantum algorithms, however, have been analyzed un...
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin, Tzvetan S. Metodi, Freder...