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CORR
2010
Springer
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Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio A...
CN
2007
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Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we provide a method to analytically compute the energy saving provided by the use of transmission power control (TPC) at the MAC layer in wireless sensor networks (W...
Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Al...
MAGS
2008
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Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
MTA
2006
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Tree-assisted gossiping for overlay video distribution
Given its readily deployable nature and broad applications for digital entertainment, video streaming through overlay networks has received much attention recently. While a tree to...
Jiangchuan Liu, Ming Zhou
IJWIS
2007
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A security framework for agent-based systems
Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
Jamal Bentahar, Francesca Toni, John-Jules Ch. Mey...