A rational P2P node may decide not to provide a particular resource or to provide it with degraded quality. If nodes are very likely to behave this way, or if the failure of an P2...
Andrew Roczniak, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Ross Kouh...
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are frequently used as the overlay in various middleware toolkits for emerging applications, from content discovery to query result caching to di...
Abstract. Optimistic replication is a fundamental technique for supporting collaborative work practices in mobile environments. However, eventual consistency, in contrast to immedi...
—Developing powerful paradigms for programming sensor networks is critical to realize the full potential of sensor networks as collaborative data processing engines. In this arti...
Computer graphics forms an important part of a working scientist’s tools. This may be provided by resources with the scientist’s group or by capabilities of the toolkits that ...