— Slander attacks represent a significant danger to distributed reputation systems. Malicious nodes may collude to lie about the reputation of a particular neighbor and cause se...
Pedro B. Velloso, Rafael P. Laufer, Otto Carlos Mu...
We propose a personal knowledge publishing system called Semblog is realized with integration of Semantic Web techniques and Weblog tools. Semblog suite provides an integrated envi...
Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda, Masahiro Hamasaki, K...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
We introduce the formal notion of an interaction interface. Its purpose is to specify formally the interaction between two or more components that co-operate as subsystems of a di...
XActor is a distributed transaction manager that affords transactional remote invocations over an open-ended set of transports. Its support to transactional interactions is dynami...