In this paper we present a simple and general new No Free Lunch-like result that applies to revisiting algorithms searching arbitrary problem sets. We begin by unifying the assumpt...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
This paper studies non-cryptographic authenticated broadcast in radio networks subject to malicious failures. We introduce two protocols that address this problem. The first, Nei...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Zark...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
Many participatory sensing applications use data collected by participants to construct a public model of a system or phenomenon. For example, a health application might compute a...
Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Raghu K. Ganti, Tarek F....