: Group communication in real-time computing systems has been a subject of research for almost two decades but it is not yet a mature technological field. The purpose of this paper...
Applications such as e-commerce payment protocols, electronic contract signing, and certified e-mail delivery require that fair exchange be assured. A fair-exchange protocol allo...
Jung Min Park, Edwin K. P. Chong, Howard Jay Siege...
A major research challenge in multi-agent systems is the problem of partitioning a set of agents into mutually disjoint coalitions, such that the overall performance of the system...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Jacek Sroka, Talal Rahwan, Mic...
Today, in many practical E-Commerce systems, the real stored data usually are short strings, such as names, addresses, or other information. Searching data within these short stri...
Distributed key-value stores are now a standard component of high-performance web services and cloud computing applications. While key-value stores offer significant performance...