Many proposals for electronic payment systems (EPS) have been made but the great majority have failed to achieve widespread adoption. The reasons why some proposals succeed and ot...
In peer-to-peer storage systems, peers can freely join and leave the system at any time. Ensuring high data availability in such an environment is a challenging task. In this paper...
In this study, we investigate self-organizing social hierarchies in multi-agent systems. Agents occupy the nodes of a smallworld network and interact exclusively with other agents...
Conventional e-mail systems are prone to problems that affect their dependability. E-mail systems operate following a “push-based” approach: the sender side server pushes the ...
Edson Kageyama, Carlos Maziero, Altair Olivo Santi...
This paper is concerned with studying how the minimum power loss in a power system is related to its network topology. The existing algorithms in the literature all exploit nonline...