Policy making is a multi-actor process: it involves a variety of actors, each trying to further their own interests. How these actors decide and act largely depends on the way the...
This paper addresses the study of fundamental properties of stream-based content distribution services. We assume the presence of an overlay network with limited connectivity degre...
Current research in distributed systems focuses on object group models which are designed for scalable systems and provide accessible objects to the entire group. However, dynamic...
— In this paper we discuss the consensus problem for a network of dynamic agents with undirected information flow and random switching topologies. The switching is determined by...
The ability to dynamically discover and invoke a Web Service is a critical aspect of Service Oriented Architectures. An important component of the discovery process is the matchma...