We present an architecture and a set of challenges for peer database management systems. These systems team up to build a network of nodes (peers) that coordinate at run time most...
— A key problem in deploying sensor networks in real-world applications is that of mapping, i.e. determining the location of each sensor such that subsequent tasks such as tracki...
Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
The Internet is widely valued for distributing control over information to a lateral network of individuals, but it is not clear how these networks can most effectively organize t...
Cristen Torrey, Moira Burke, Matthew L. Lee, Anind...
Traditional multiparty audio conferencing uses a star-shaped topology where all the clients connect to a central MCU (Multipoint Control Unit). The MCU mixes the signals from the ...