With the growing scale of current computing systems, traditional configuration tuning methods become less effective because they usually assume a small number of parameters in the...
In a large-scale information system such as a digital library or the web, a set of distributed caches can improve their effectiveness by coordinating their data placement decisions...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Many complex control problems require sophisticated solutions that are not amenable to traditional controller design. Not only is it difficult to model real world systems, but oft...
This article describes a mathematical framework for characterizing cooperativity in complex systems subject to evolutionary pressures. This framework uses three foundational compo...