The `Cooperation Logic of Propositional Control', cl-pc, of van der Hoek and Wooldridge is a logic for reasoning about the ability of agents and groups of agents to obtain a ...
In wireless ad hoc networks, autonomous nodes are reluctant to forward others' packets because of the nodes' limited energy. However, such selfishness and noncooperation ...
Metacomputing frameworks have received renewed attention of late, fueled both by advances in hardware and networking, and by novel concepts such as computational grids. However the...
Mauro Migliardi, Jack Dongarra, Al Geist, Vaidy S....
This paper presents the principles of a Home Automation System dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to user comfort a...
How to rapidly disseminate a large-sized file to many recipients is a fundamental problem in many applications, such as updating software patches and distributing large scientific ...