Recently, a server-less video-on-demand architecture has been proposed to eliminate costly dedicated video servers and yet is highly scalable and reliable. However, because of the...
Some safety-critical distributed embedded systems may need to use centralized components to achieve certain dependability properties. The difficulty in combining centralized and d...
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
The need for efficient decentralized recommender systems has been appreciated for some time, both for the intrinsic advantages of decentralization and the necessity of integrating...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy, Afshin Moin, ...
— In this paper we use partially ordered sets (posets) to study decentralized control problems arising in different settings. We show that time delayed systems with certain dela...