—In the offshore engineering community, reliable deep-water anchor performance is critical for mooring floating platforms such as Mobile Offshore Drilling Units. In a typical in...
Access to distributed databases containing tuples collected about mobile physical objects requires information about the objects’ trajectories. Existing access control models ca...
– Communication overhead is one of the dominant factors that affect performance in high-performance computing systems. To reduce the negative impact of communication, programmers...
—Symmetry breaking is a fundamental operation in distributed computing. It has applications to important problems such as graph vertex and edge coloring, maximal independent sets...
— We consider a distributed system modeled as a possibly large network of automata. Planning in this system consists in selecting and organizing actions in order to reach a goal ...