In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...
Modern scientific computing involves organizing, moving, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data at multiple sites around the world. The technologies, the middleware se...
Brian Tierney, Jason Lee, Brian Crowley, Mason Hol...
Computational resources for research in legal environments have historically implied remote access to large databases of legal documents such as case law, statutes, law reviews an...
Jack G. Conrad, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Ying Zhao, Georg...
Abstract: This paper presents a multiagent architecture and algorithms for collaborative, self-organizing learning in distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic business systems, where...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...