Individual-based Information Dissemination in Multilayer Epidemic Modeling

Agreement in Epidemic Information Dissemination

Consensus is one of the fundamental problems in multi-agent systems and distributed computing, in which agents or processing nodes are required to reach global agreement on some data value, decision, action, or synchronisation. In the absence of centralised coordination, achieving global consensus is challenging especially in dynamic and large-scale distributed systems with faulty processes. Th...

Epidemic Dissemination of Presence Information in Mobile Instant Messaging Systems

This paper presents an approach for exchanging presence information between users of an instant messaging system in a mobile ad hoc network. As major feature, presence information is transferred when mobile users get in direct contact, similar to the spread of an infections disease. By exploiting node mobility, presence information is epidemically distributed throughout the network, effectively...

SAMENVATTING Epidemic-Style Information Dissemination in Large-scale Wireless Networks

Community Based Information Dissemination

Given a social network, we are interested to determine k seeds that maximize the dissemination of information. Based on the principle of homophily, communities play an important role since information can be disseminated to communities via the seeds. We introduce a new mechanism for detecting communities satisfying the pertinent criteria for communities and information dissemination. We demonst...

Dissemination-Based Information Systems

This paper examines the construction of distributed information systems that incorporate the ability to push data out to clients (i.e., dissemination) in addition to having clients pull data from servers. One key issue that distinguishes such dissemination-based information systems (DBIS) from more traditional ones is communications asymmetry. Asymmetry arises in many new applications due to bo...