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BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Use of Online Analytic Performance Models, in Self-Managing and Self-Organizing Computer Systems
Current computing environments are becoming increasingly complex in nature and exhibit unpredictable workloads. These environments create challenges to the design of systems that c...
Daniel A. Menascé, Mohamed N. Bennani, Hong...
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Spatial Computing: The TOTA Approach
Spatial abstractions promise to be basic necessary ingredients for a novel “spatial computing” approach to distributed systems development and management, suitable to tackle th...
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Self-Management of Virtual Paths in Dynamic Networks
Abstract Virtual path management in dynamic networks poses a number of challenges related to combinatorial optimisation, fault and traffic handling. Ideally such management should ...
Poul E. Heegaard, Otto Wittner, Bjarne E. Helvik
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Design and Analysis of a Bio-inspired Search Algorithm for Peer to Peer Networks
Decentralized peer to peer (p2p) networks like Gnutella are attractive for certain applications because they require no centralized directories and no precise control over network ...
Niloy Ganguly, Lutz Brusch, Andreas Deutsch
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative Content Distribution: Scalability Through Self-Organization
Abstract. Peer-to-peer networks have often been touted as the ultimate solution to scalability. Although cooperative techniques have been initially used almost exclusively for cont...
Pascal Felber, Ernst W. Biersack
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Emergent Consensus in Decentralised Systems Using Collaborative Reinforcement Learning
Abstract. This paper describes the application of a decentralised coordination algorithm, called Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (CRL), to two different distributed system pr...
Jim Dowling, Raymond Cunningham, Anthony Harringto...
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Making Self-Adaptation an Engineering Reality
In this paper, we envision a world where a software engineer could take an existing software system, specify, for a set of properties of interest, an objective, conditions for chan...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evolving Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Graceful Degradation of Software
Fractal proteins are an evolvable method of mapping genotype to phenotype through a developmental process, where genes are expressed into proteins comprised of subsets of the Mande...
Peter J. Bentley