Following the huge commercial success of WLAN, multihop wireless networks are expected to lead in the next wave of deployment. Fundamental methods for traffic engineering must be...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
This paper proposes a general framework for searching large distributed repositories. Examples of such repositories include sites with music/video content, distributed digital lib...