Collaborative tagging is increasingly drawing attentions. However the keyword based tagging scheme has its limitations and it can be observed that tagging society are seeking and ...
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply d...
— In this paper, the problem of optimizing the performances of a distributed supply chain is faced by means of a decentralized architecture. In particular, a general scheme for a...
We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework...
The primary goal of smart homes is to provide their users with the maximum comfort and convenience. In this paper, we present a profile management framework for situation-dependen...