The label “artificial intelligence”(AI) hides a contradiction in terms, ie it classifies as artificial
an intelligent existence whose skeleton/hardware is not carbon-based. An inorganic …

In highly dynamic systems (such as wireless mobile ad hoc networks, robotic swarms,
vehicular networks, etc.) connectivity does not necessarily hold at a given time but temporal …

Consensus is a fundamental building block to solve many practical problems that appear on
reliable distributed systems. In spite of the fact that consensus is being widely studied in the …

In highly dynamic networks, topological changes are not anomalies but rather integral part of
their nature. Such networks are becoming quite ubiquitous. They include systems where the …

Failure detection in distributed systems under MANET environment is a hard task to achieve.
Indeed, due to mobility and resource constraints, traditional protocols record a high number …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are characterized by a dynamic topology and generally
deployed in a hostile environment with limited resources. As a result, the nodes are more …

With the advent of new technologies in the area of wireless systems and communications,
modern distributed systems are subject to new constraints. Indeed, there is an increasing …

In this paper, we deal with failure detection in distributed systems under mobile environment
constraints. For this effect, we propose a new protocol, called AFDAN (Accurate Fault …

We present an implementation of an eventually perfect failure detector in an arbitrarily
connected, partitionable network. We assume ADD channels: for each one there exist …

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a proposal to assist in the maintenance of the health and
well-being of the elderly or people with special needs. To this end, intelligent devices are …