The agent paradigm includes the notion that agents interact with services. This paper identifies the need for controlled access to such services, from the perspective of agent sys...
Benno J. Overeinder, P. D. Verkaik, Frances M. T. ...
One reasonable categorization of coordination models is into data sharing or message passing, based on whether the information necessary to coordination is persistently stored and...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
This paper presents LiFTinG, the first protocol to detect freeriders, including colluding ones, in gossip-based content dissemination systems with asymmetric data exchanges. LiFT...