The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a key issue in multiagent systems. Due to its universality, voting has a central role among preference aggregation mechanisms. Votin...
Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...
This paper proposes a method for generating a Focus+Glue +Context map for Web map services by improving existing fisheye views methods for cartographic data. While many studies h...
Sensor networks are unattended deeply distributed systems whose schema can be conceptualized using the relational model. Aggregation queries on the data sampled at each ode are th...
We study the problem of maintaining sketches of recent elements of a data stream. Motivated by applications involving network data, we consider streams that are asynchronous, in w...