Abstract. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause cohere...
Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Ros...
Abstract. For a typical portable handheld device, the backlight accounts for a significant percentage of the total energy consumption (e.g., around 30% for a Compaq iPAQ 3650). Su...
Abstract. Scalable group key management solutions are crucial for supporting Internet applications that are based on a group communication model. Many solutions have been proposed ...
Himanshu Khurana, Rafael Bonilla, Adam J. Slagell,...
Abstract. Composite web services can be orchestrated in a decentralized manner by breaking down the original service specification into a set of partitions and executing them on a...
Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...