We present a mechanism for collaboration and coordination amongst agents in multi-agent societies seeking social equity. This mechanism allows to compute egalitarian allocations of...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....
Quality-of-service (QOS) requirements for applications in high-speed networks are typically specied on an end-to-end basis. Mapping this end-to-end requirement to nodal requiremen...
Ramesh Nagarajan, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsl...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
The increasing popularity and diversity of collaborative applications prompts a need for highly secure and reliable communication platforms for dynamic peer groups. Security mecha...
Jonathan Robert Stanton, Yair Amir, Damian Hasse, ...