Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their realization have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it become...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
In this paper, we use random-selection protocols in the full-information model to solve classical problems in distributed computing. Our main results are the following: • An O(l...
Shafi Goldwasser, Elan Pavlov, Vinod Vaikuntanatha...
A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
Fault-tolerant protocols, asynchronous and synchronous alike, make stationary fault assumptions: only a fraction f of the total n nodes may fail. Whilst a synchronous protocol is ...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...
Ambient Intelligent Systems provide an unexplored hardware platform for executing distributed applications under strict energy constraints. These systems must respond quickly to c...
Diana Marculescu, Nicholas H. Zamora, Phillip Stan...