The article presents a general model of the emergence of social order in multi-agent-systems (MAS). The agents consist of two types of neural networks that have the task to generat...
This paper presents a multicast algorithm for peer-topeer dissemination of events in a distributed topic-based publish-subscribe system, where processes publish events of certain ...
The goal of this paper is to assess the value of simple features that are widely available in off-the-shelf CORBA and Java platforms for the implementation of faulttolerance mecha...
We present a framework for transforming several quorum-based protocols so that they can dynamically adapt their failure threshold and server count, allowing them to be reconfigure...
This paper describes and discusses the work carried on in the context of the CORTEX project, for the development of adaptive real-time applications in wormhole based systems. The ...
Pedro Martins, Paulo Jorge Paiva de Sousa, Antonio...