Musical databases are growing in number, size, and complexity, and they are becoming increasingly relevant for a broad range of academic as well as commercial applications. The fe...
This paper discusses the implementation and performance of bounded voting: a new object replication protocol designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. We show ...
Microprocessor-based systems are increasingly used to control safety-critical systems (e.g., air and railway traffic control, nuclear plant control, aircraft and car control). In t...
The messiahs project is investigating mechanisms that support task placement in heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous systems. messiahs provides a substrate on which scheduling a...
Abstract. Online reputation mechanisms need honest feedback to function effectively. Self interested agents report the truth only when explicit rewards offset the cost of reporting...