In a recent work, we have shown that it is not possible to dependably build any type of distributed f fault or intrusiontolerant system under the asynchronous model. This result f...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...
We introduce the Symphony framework, a software ion layer that can sit on top of grid systems. Symphony provides a unified API for grid application developers and offers a graphic...
A new garbage collection algorithm for distributed object systems, called DMOS (Distributed Mature Object Space), is presented. It is derived from two previous algorithms, MOS (Ma...
Richard L. Hudson, Ronald Morrison, J. Eliot B. Mo...
In this paper, we propose a multi-agent approach for solving a class of optimization problems involving expensive resources, where monolithic local search schemes perform miserabl...
This paper focuses on the problem of how to allow sharing of copyrighted content between a set of authorised devices and preventing unauthoried copying of content to other devices...