We address the problem of the impossibility of implementing synchronous fault-tolerant service specifications in asynchronous distributed systems. We introduce a method for weaken...
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
Servicing mobile hosts over the Internet has some problems including nodes' location, independent addressing, address conversion and packet forwarding as well as mobile host...
Seung-Won Lee, Hyeon-Ok Hong, Seong-Ho Park, Yong ...
A key problem when forming effective coalitions of autonomous agents is determining the best groupings, or the optimal coalition structure, to select to achieve some goal. To this...
Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet Dung Dan...
For many years discrete-event simulation has been used to analyze production and logistics problems in manufacturing and defense. Commercial-off-the-shelf Simulation Packages (CSP...
Simon J. E. Taylor, Navonil Mustafee, Steffen Stra...