With the success and ubiquity of large scale, social media networks comes the challenge of
assessing the veracity of information shared across them that inform individuals about …

Molecular communication is a new communication paradigm that allows nanomachines to
communicate using biological mechanisms and/or components to transfer information (eg …

Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we
engage-even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated …

Peer sampling is a first-class abstraction used in distributed systems for overlay
management and information dissemination. The goal of peer sampling is to continuously …

Runtime models play a critical role in modern self-adaptive systems. Hence, runtime
architectural models are needed when making adaptation decisions in architecture-based …

Very large scale distributed systems provide some of the most interesting research
challenges while at the same time being increasingly required by nowadays applications …

Large-scale distributed systems appear as the major infrastructures for supporting planet-
scale services. These systems call for appropriate management mechanisms and protocols …

Slicing a large-scale distributed system is the process of autonomously partitioning its nodes
into k groups, named slices. Slicing is associated to an order on node-specific criteria, such …

In online reputation mechanisms, providing the system participants (peers) with the
appropriate information on previous interactions is crucial for accurate reputation …

In less than a decade, smartphones and mobile applications spread like wildfire and
dramatically improved aspects of our professional and private lives, from efficiency to safety …