Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
The study focuses on a class of discrete-time multi-agent systems modelling opinion dynamics with decaying confidence. Essentially, we propose an agreement protocol that impose a p...
All Internet-accessible computing systems are currently faced with incessant threats ranging from simple scriptkiddies to highly sophisticated criminal enterprises. In response to...
In the span of only a few years, the Internet has experienced an astronomical increase in the use of specialized content delivery systems, such as content delivery networks and pe...
Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn...
Providing distributed processes with concurrent objects is a fundamental service that has to be offered by any distributed system. The classical shared read/write register is one ...