Abstract— Distributed stream-based applications, such as continuous query systems, have network scale and time characteristics that challenge traditional distributed query optimi...
Jeffrey Shneidman, Peter R. Pietzuch, Matt Welsh, ...
We propose the πD -calculus, a process calculus that can flexibly model fine-grained control of resource access in distributed computation, with a type system that statically pr...
Monitoring is an issue of primary concern in current and next generation networked systems. For example, the objective of sensor networks is to monitor their surroundings for a va...
Ram Keralapura, Graham Cormode, Jeyashankher Ramam...
Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, S...
This paper proposes a multi-agent system architecture based on introspective agents provided with an expressive communication language and reasoning capabilities on their skills. ...