One frequently studied problem in the context of information dissemination in communication networks is the broadcasting problem. In this paper, we study the following randomized b...
As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...
With the growing demand on cluster analysis for categorical data, a handful of categorical clustering algorithms have been developed. Surprisingly, to our knowledge, none has sati...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
With continuously growing numbers of applications, enterprises face the problem of efficiently managing the assignment of access permissions to their users. On the one hand, secur...