Complex networks have been used successfully in scientific disciplines ranging from sociology to microbiology to describe systems of interacting units. Until recently, studies of...
With the increasing number of processors in modern HPC(High Performance Computing) systems, there are two emergent problems to solve. One is scalability, the other is fault tolera...
Ubiquitous Computing Environments feature massively distributed systems containing a large number of devices, services and applications that help end-users perform various kinds o...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Ca...
The performance of mobile ad hoc networks can be influenced by numerous factors, including protocol design at every layer; parameter settings such as retransmission limits and ti...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...