— This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object by a group of mobile robots. We present a system in which group members lacking knowledge about the position of...
Modern software has to evolve to meet the needs of stakeholders; but the nature and scope of this evolution is difficult to anticipate and manage. In this paper, we examine techn...
One important requirement of electronic cash systems is the anonymity of customers. Unconditional anonymity is also very well suited to support criminals in blackmailing. Maitland ...
The CORBA Object Group Service (OGS) is a new CORBA service that provides support for fault-tolerance through the replication of CORBA objects. In this paper, we present several o...
Many new paradigms of parallel programming have emerged that compete with and complement the standard and well-established MPI model. Most notable, and successful, among these are...