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CISS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
The Chinese Generals Problem
Abstract—To achieve higher reliability, safety, and faulttolerance, many mission-critical detection and decision systems implement consensus algorithms that force the systems’ ...
Edwin Soedarmadji
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Low-dimensional embedding with extra information
A frequently arising problem in computational geometry is when a physical structure, such as an ad-hoc wireless sensor network or a protein backbone, can measure local information...
Mihai Badoiu, Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Haji...
ICPP
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Memetic Networks: Analyzing the Effects of Network Properties in Multi-Agent Performance
We explore the relationship between properties of the network defined by connected agents and the global system performance. This is achieved by means of a novel class of optimiza...
Ricardo M. Araujo, Luís C. Lamb
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
User-Friendly Access Control for Public Network Ports
We are facing a growing user demand for ubiquitous Internet access. As a result, network ports and wireless LANs are becoming common in public spaces inside buildings such as loung...
Guido Appenzeller, Mema Roussopoulos, Mary Baker