The Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT, led by Prof. Nancy Lynch, is working with the Cooperative Computing group at NTT on developing models and analysis methods for distributed systems, with a focus on cooperative group activities in networks. Such group activities range from human social activities in cyber communities to powerful distributed applications involving data shar...

Following the article published in previous issue of magazine, we restore second theme, regarding accounting selling vegetables cooperative members by means of/to agricultural case they are obtained from their own exploitations. The sales/deliveries by/to can take place several variants, respectively based on commission for services, trade markup practised cooperative, directly at its shop, war...

Cellular-based cooperative communication is a promising technique that allows cooperation among mobile devices not only to increase data throughput but also to improve localization services. For a certain number of cooperative nodes, the geometry plays a significant role in enhancing the accuracy of target. In this paper, a simple solution to the deployment of cooperative nodes aiming at the lo...

Cooperative process management based on e-Services requires support for design, retrieval, and composition of e-Services. In the VISPO project the authors have studied the characteristics of an e-Service-based approach in virtual districts. The paper illustrates the VISPO approach to design coordination in a virtual district, proposed mechanism for coordination and substitution of e-Services in...

The Italian approach to e-Government is based on the development and deployment of the Unitary Network, a “secure Intranet” interconnecting all the public administrations, and the set up, on top of it, of a common Cooperative Architecture, a distributed computing model in which each administration is abstracted as a Domain, offering data and application services to the others through Cooperativ...

$EVWUDFW2 Vehicular networks are promising in providing Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, thus allowing for several useful services on roads related to safety applications as well as entertainment applications. However, a number of constraints can impact the reliability of vehicular networks applications. The general constraints concern the high mobilit...

Abstract A growing body of literature shows that full-cooperation among farmers to manage productive ecosystem services would yield gains with respect uncoordinated approaches. The public good feature these may, however, hinder the emergence a cooperative solution at landscape scale. In this paper, we introduce in coalition formation game spatially-explicit bioeconomic model fruit pollination, ...