Abstract. At-most-once semantics is one of the standard models for object access in decentralized systems. Accessing an object, such as altering the state of the object by means of...
Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Nicolas C. Nicol...
— During an emergency response, access to a reliable communication infrastructure is required to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Various communication technolog...
This paper introduces a self-configuring architecture for scaling the database tier of dynamic content web servers. We use a unified approach to load and fault management based ...
Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, ...
During recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems have evolved in many ways to accommodate growing numbers of participating peers. In particular, new features have cha...
Roboethics is a recently developed field of applied ethics which deals with the ethical aspects of technologies such as robots, ambient intelligence, direct neural interfaces and i...